Azerbaijan citizens who suffered as a result of a destructive earthquake that occurred in the southern provinces of Turkey are ongoing, the Foreign Ministry said in the southern provinces of Turkey.
The operational headquarters created at the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry at the Azerbaijan Embassy in Turkey and the Consulate Generals, hundreds of appeals coming by hot lines arrives and investigates and investigates.
Based on the data received, lists of affected citizens of Azerbaijan are compiled. In this regard, cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education of Turkey, the Council of Higher Education and other state institutions of this country.
The process of evacuation of our citizens in Azerbaijan also continues. In order to uninterrupted implementation of the evacuation process, a group of employees of the embassy and the apparatus of a military attache under the embassy was sent to the earthquake zone.
February 7, 2023, 205 citizens of Azerbaijan and members of their families, who are citizens of foreign states, were sent by ground transport through Georgia to Azerbaijan on 5 buses of 12 victims of the provinces earthquake. Today it is planned to evacuate most of our citizens, and for this the appropriate measures are carried out.