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THE Philippine team sent to Turkey is not only helping in the ongoing search and rescue operations for earthquake victims and survivors, but also giving Turkish disaster workers a crash course in quake-borne operations, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said on Sunday. The delegation known as Philippine Inter-Agency Humanitarian…
MANILA - The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday said assistance will be provided to the earthquake-affected Filipinos in both Trkiye and Syria. Foreign Affairs spokesperson Ma. Teresita Daza said both the Philippine Embassy in Ankara and Damascus have activated the so-called "crisis control management" as soon as the earthquake rattled south Trkiye. "They will do what needs to be done and bring what needs to be brought to actually be able to address the needs that have been raised by different (Filipino communities)," she told reporters in a briefing. Daza sai...
Several Filipinos are missing and their situation still undetermined after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Türkiye leveled residential buildings across 10 provinces and left thousands of people dead. Based on information relayed by Filipino community leaders there in separate interviews with ABS-CB
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration is verifying reports that a Filipino worker was among the thousands of people killed in the strong earthquake that rocked Turkey and Syria.