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) the Black Sea grain initiative,” TASS cites Dujarric’s answer to the corresponding question.

He noted that the earthquake will affect the implementation of UN humanitarian operations "in southern Turkey and northwestern Syria."

According to the latest data, the death toll from the earthquake in Turkey has reached 1651.

Director of the Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Pyotr Shebalin, commented on the earthquake in Turkey in an interview with NSN.