Live Updates: Earthquake Kills More Than 45,000 in Turkey and Syria

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Aid to quake-hit Syria slowed by sanctions, war's divisions

BEIRUT (AP) — Even before Monday’s devastating earthquake , getting aid to all parts of war-battered Syria was fraught with daunting political and logistical challenges.
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At a press conference Tuesday in Damascus, Syrian Arab Red Crescent head Khaled Hboubati said his group is “ready to deliver relief aid to all regions of Syria, including areas not under government control.” He called for the European Union to lift its sanctions on Syria in light of the massive destruction caused by the earthquake.

Aid convoys and rescuers from several countries, notably key ally Russia, as well as the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Iran, and Algeria, have landed in airports in government-held Syria.

Still, the sanctions exacerbate the “difficult humanitarian situation,” Hboubati said.

“There is no fuel even to send (aid and rescue) convoys, and this is because of the blockade and sanctions,” he said.

So far, the U.S. and its allies have resisted attempts at creating a political opening by way of the disaster response. U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters Monday that it would be “ironic, if not even counterproductive, for us to reach out to a government that has brutalized its people over the course of a dozen years now.”

Price said the U.S. would continue to provide aid through “humanitarian partners on the ground.”

Similarly, a spokesperson for the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said the “sanctions regime was put in place in response to human rights violations and other abuses by the regime and their cronies.”

A U.S. State Department spokesperson said humanitarian assistance in government-held areas go through partner organizations instead of the government.

“Our partners in regime-controlled areas directly deliver assistance to beneficiaries without control or direction from the Assad regime,” they told AP. “This is to ensure that our assistance is not diverted by malign actors or the Assad regime and reaches the intended beneficiaries.”

One of the main groups supported by the United States and Britain is a civil defense organization in opposition-held areas known as the White Helmets; USAID Administrator Samantha Power spoke with the group’s head Tuesday and “discussed how USAID can provide the most urgently needed assistance in response to the earthquake,” her office said in a statement.

The European Union has provided aid in all parts of Syria through U.N. and NGO partners and is trying to increase funding for humanitarian support, said European Commission spokesperson Balazs Ujvari. He said the Syrian government has not yet formally requested Europe send rescue and medical workers.

In theory, aid operations in government areas should not be blocked by sanctions, since both the U.S. and EU have exemptions for humanitarian aid.

But the reality on the ground is sometimes different. For example, Lund said, banks might block transfers to pay suppliers or local workers for aid organizations for fear of running afoul of sanctions, despite the exemptions.

Also, U.S. sanctions and to some extent EU ones try to prevent rebuilding of damaged infrastructure and property in government-held areas in the absence of a political solution, which could hamper post-earthquake recovery, Lund said.

Meanwhile, in both parts of Syria, local emergency workers say only limited aid is reaching them.

“There are promises that aid will get to us but nothing has gotten here yet,” said the White Helmets’ head Raed Saleh.
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88m3 said:
Go there and suck Assad's dikk.
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NatSec, NatSec, NatSec, what (oww!):ohlawd:
 
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ADevilYouKhow said:
www.france24.com

Faster and cheaper: Turkey's construction sector blamed for scale of earthquake devastation

Developers in Turkey’s construction sector are in the hot seat and dozens have been arrested following the earthquakes that caused the collapse of thousands of multi-storey buildings and individual houses…
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Guy on france24 was letting it off on Erdogan..he was more doom and gloom.

The Debate - Turkey's fault lines: Could more have been done to limit quake damage?

Saying he believes Erdogan wi try to postpone election in an unconstitutional way..thus he'd be a dictator as they can only postpone elections I. TURKIYE due to war.

He fully blamed Erdogan for the deathtolls..

Said over 50B euros were used to vanity projects,bribes,funds misused ..

That everyone has a clean slate electorally..polls don't matter right now. And it's Erdogans election to lose unless opposition can provide a new vision for the country.

As it stands Erdogan is President so he is in power to actually do shyt..opposition can only provide rhetoric..and talking points.
 
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