An 85-man team will leave for Turkey on Wednesday, Feb. 8, to bring assistance to those heavily affected by the strong earthquake in the foreign country.
Rescue workers and volunteers search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed building, in Sanliurfa, Turkey, on February 6, 2023, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country’s south-east.
“We organized a group of about 85 personnel together with some goods,” Marcos said in an interview on the sidelines of the national tax campaign kick-off ceremony. “I already have the assurance also of the Turkish airways that they will be the ones to bring our people and our equipment and our goods to I suppose Ankara first and to be distributed properly in Turkey,” Marcos said.
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