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Transcript: The Inside Story: Earthquake Episode 79 – February 16, 2023 Show Open: Unidentified Narrator: An earthquake kills tens of thousands of people --- Leaving hundreds of thousands homeless in Turkey and Syria. Unidentified Rescue Worker: We don’t know if...
A Syrian family once displaced by conflict has to start life over for a second time after a powerful quake hit the region on February 6. VOA's Arif Aslan has more in this story, narrated by Sirwan Kajjo. Videographer: Arif Aslan
The United States has pledged more than $85 million dollars in humanitarian assistance to Turkey and Syria after an earthquake killed more than 20,000 people in the region. As VOA's Senior Diplomatic Correspondent Cindy Saine reports, funding through the U.S. Agency for International Development will go toward shelter, food, water, cold-weather supplies, and health care. VOA footage by VOA Kurdish Service and VOA Turkish Service. Arif Aslan, Orhan Erkilic, and Umut Colak contributed.