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Baku/01.03.23/Turan: As of the evening of February 28, the death toll as a result of catastrophic earthquakes in Turkey on February 6 reached 45,089 people.
This is reported in the message of the Emergency Situations Agency AFAD.
After earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 in the Pazardzhik district of Kahramanmarash and magnitude 7.6 in the center of Elbistan, 11,020 aftershocks occurred.
According to the latest data, 1 million 971.000 people were evacuated from Kahramanmarash, Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir, Adana, Adiyaman, Osmaniye, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya and Elazige.
Note that 35,837 tents have been set up in 11 provinces. The installation of container towns in 10 provinces continues, AFAD reports. -02D-
Politics
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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