A country torn apart after 10 years of civil war has been hit hard again by successive earthquakes of 7.8 and 7.6 on the Richter scale. Thousands of dead and wounded stuck in ruins, cities full of ruins are a new reality not only in Turkey. A similar picture is observed in much of Syria, where entire neighborhoods were razed to the ground in a matter of seconds.

As the Director of the Hellenic Red Cross summarizes the situation, Antonis Avgerinos: “All the same, there were terrible humanitarian problems in the country, Mr. earthquake now he will make them big.”