Türkiye is in solidarity with Kazakhstan against backdrop of natural disaster

Turkish Foreign Ministry expressed support to Kazakhstan in connection with mass floods that fell on a number of regions of the country.

“are deeply saddened by the news of destructive floods in various regions of Kazakhstan, which led to serious damage and forced tens of thousands of citizens of the country to evacuate,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry will say in a statement of the Turkish.

The department expressed condolences to the people and the government of Kazakhstan.

Turkish Foreign Ministry emphasized that Ankara is ready to provide all the necessary assistance in eliminating the consequences of a natural disaster.

The number of evacuated residents of Kazakhstan from the areas of large -scale floods approached 19 thousand. This was reported earlier by the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Republic.

President of Kazakhstan Kasym-Zhomart Tokaev called the floods the largest natural disaster in the country over the past 80 years.