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More than 70 nations and dozens of NGOs have responded to the greatest natural disaster in Turkey’s history and perhaps the Middle East because of two major earthquakes and more than a hundred aftershocks. CBN’s Operation Blessing is on the ground reaching out to the people of Turkey devastated by those massive quakes.
The death toll from that catastrophic earthquake along the border of Turkey and Syria is still climbing. Now it's over 21,000 and search teams are still looking for survivors.
Turkey's president calls what Monday's 7.8 magnitude earthquake and a 7.6 aftershock did to his nation and neighboring Syria "the disaster of the century." The death toll is racing toward 25,000 people as rescue operations continue around the clock.
More than 19,000 people have now died along the Turkey-Syria border from this week's catastrophic earthquakes. Rescuers are working as quickly as they can as the "survival window" closes fast.
Two Hampton Roads organizations are mobilizing their disaster relief teams to Turkey and Syria following a deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake.