Ireland to provide €300k worth of aid to Turkish earthquake victims
Ireland will provide emergency aid valued at €300,000 for thousands of earthquake victims in Turkey, it was announced tonight.
Development Minister Jan O’Sullivan said the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, through Irish Aid, would provide 600 large tents and 3,000 blankets from its humanitarian stockpile in Dubai.
The supplies will be airlifted to Turkey by the United Nations, arriving later this week.
“There is a pressing need to provide emergency shelter to hundreds of thousands who have been affected by the earthquake,” Minister O’Sullivan said.
More than 200,000 were left homeless by the earthquake in the provinces of Van and Bitlis on Sunday 23 October. The earthquake, which measured 7.2 on the Richter scale, led to the collapse of 2,000 buildings and the confirmed death toll is nearly 500.
