Iran (IMNA) - On Tuesday, an Iranian jet carrying aid consignments landed at the airport in the south-central Turkish city of Gaziantep.
The death toll from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck neighboring nations on February 6 has topped 40,000, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announcing the figure at 35,418.
The IRCS's head, Pir-Hossein Koulivand, has also been to Turkey to assess the status of earthquake victims in person.
"We have felt Iran at our side at every time and moment when we would face a challenge," the president of the Turkish Red Crescent Society Kerem Kinik added, stressing that Iranian rescue crews were among the first to rush to Turkey following the terrible earthquake.
Speaking on Sunday, Koulivand had stated that such third wave of the Islamic Republic's relief shipments for Turkey weighed more than 55 tons including 1,000 tents, 1,000 blankets and three mergency vehicles. At least six humanitarian shipments from the Islamic Republic have already been sent to Syria.
More than 41,200 deaths have been reported in Turkey and Syria eight days after the earthquake and its strong aftershocks, and the number of miraculous survival chances is dwindling.
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