The statement was published on the official website of the department.
We are talking about the provinces of Kahramanmaras, Malatya, Diyarbakir and Malatya and the Gaziantep region.
“Due to increased seismic activity in the central and southern parts of Turkey, it is recommended to refrain from traveling,” the statement said.
For tourists who went on a trip on a package tour, a hotline of the Tourist Assistance Association has been opened.
Tourists traveling on their own can contact the Department of the Situation and Crisis Center of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Earlier, the first group of the EMERCOM of Russia arrived at the site of search and rescue operations in Turkey.
It was also reported that the death toll from the earthquake in Turkey rose to 3432.
Head of the Laboratory of Seismic Hazard of the Institute of Physics of the Earth named after V.I.
O. Yu. Schmidt of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Alexei Zavyalov, in an interview with radio Komsomolskaya Pravda, said that such a powerful earthquake that occurred on February 6 in southeastern Turkey had not happened for almost a century and a half.