But security concerns led some aid operations to be suspended. Read more at straitstimes.com.
In Turkey’s gourmet capital Gaziantep city, restaurants are working hard among tens of thousands of volunteers to help and feed families.“Our co-workers are in a bad situation. Their families are victims and their houses are destroyed,” said Mr Cagdas.
Their Imam Cagdas restaurant is renowned for Alinazik aubergine and meat stew and they have served up to 4,000 free meals a day outdoors since the tragedy struck.But some clashes have also been reported and the UN rights office on Friday urged all actors in the affected area – where Kurdish militants and Syrian rebels operate – to allow humanitarian access.
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, considered a terrorist group by Ankara and its Western allies, has announced a temporary halt in fighting to ease recovery work. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus took a flight full of emergency medical equipment into the quake-stricken city of Aleppo on Saturday.
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