He said this in an address to the people in the epicenter of the earthquake - the province of Kahramanmarash.

“From here I would like to make one more statement: we have negotiated with the hotels of Antalya, Alanya, Mersin and are ready to accommodate our citizens in the hotels of these provinces if they agree,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

On February 6, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared nationwide mourning in the country in connection with the earthquakes.

According to the latest data, the death toll from the earthquake in Turkey has exceeded 8.5 thousand people.

Seismologist Anna Nikolaeva, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, commented on the situation in Turkey in an interview with Economics Today.