Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Tan Cuong urged the dispatched servicemen to remain disciplined and actively overcome difficulties to accomplish the tasks assigned by the Party, State and army, thereby leaving a good impression on the Turkish authorities and people as well as international friends.
Meanwhile, the Vietnamese Embassy in Turkey has been urgently performing citizen protection measures, and actively supporting the mission of the Ministry of Public Security, which is on search-and-rescue duty in areas bearing the brunt of the devastating February 6 earthquake.
The quake was the most devastating disaster to shake Turkey since the 1939 Erzincan earthquake. Local authorities have declared a state of emergency requiring urgent search and rescue missions.
As one of the world's most active earthquake zones, Turkey has experienced several strong earthquakes in the past, including a magnitude 7.4 quake in 1999 that was the most severe in decades, resulting in over 17,000 fatalities. The most recent magnitude-7 earthquake occurred in October 2022 in Aegean, causing 114 deaths and injuring over 1,000.
