At midday on Tuesday, 7 February, the European Commission indicated that—faced with the scale of the disaster caused by the very powerful earthquake and its aftershocks, which struck Turkey and neighbouring Syria on Monday, 6 February—the European Union has been working “around the clock” to increase its assistance; the provisional death toll was nearly 6,000 people in both countries at that time.
In response to Turkey’s request for assistance through the Civil Protection...