VOV.VN - A 24-member team deployed by the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security arrived in Turkey during the early morning of February 11 as they got search and rescue operations for quake victims underway.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Turkey has sent a working delegation to southeastern provinces joining search and rescue activities for victims of an earthquake that devastated this part the country on February 6.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of National Defence has decided to send 80 Vietnamese soldiers to Turkey to help the Middle Eastern country with ongoing search and rescue efforts following the recent earthquake which has so far killed 21,000.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has sent a total of 24 policemen of the Ho Chi Minh Police Department of Fire Prevention and Fighting and Rescue (PC07) and officers of the Ministry of Public Security to Turkey in order to help locate and rescue survivors of a recent deadly earthquake.

VOV.VN - Doan Khac Viet, deputy spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, answered a number of questions related to citizen protection during the Ministry’s regular press conference held on February 9.

VOV.VN - National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue has sent letters expressing his deepest sympathy to leaders of the Turkish and Syrian legislatures and people of the two countries over serious damage caused by the recent devastating earthquakes.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Turkey had by February 6 recorded no Vietnamese citizens dead or injured in an earthquake that devastated the country earlier the same day.

There has not been any information confirming Vietnamese citizens are among those affected by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the most powerful over the past nearly 100 years.

VOV.VN - Acting State President Vo Thi Anh Xuan on February 6 cabled a telegram to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over recent large earthquakes, leaving many people dead and injured.

VOV.VN - Both Vietnamese and Jordanian diplomats have expressed a belief that based on the sound friendship, co-operation, and potential, mutual relations between the two nations will develop in an increasingly effective manner moving forward.