Earthquake in Turkey and Syria First and Second Victims Comment Nedeljnik Vreme

Aid from all over the world started arriving almost immediately after the earthquake First, the most important for saving the lives of those who remained under the ruins (in Turkey, rescue teams from 94 countries are on the ground), then medicines, medical equipment, money.

And although the calamity on both sides of the Turkish-Syrian border is the same, and all international humanitarian organizations and the United Nations call on all countries of the world to overcome all political disputes and to help all victims as soon as possible, the fact that, for the umpteenth time, it is shown that politics determines which victims are "priority" and which will be help will have to wait, if it ever comes to them Aside from the news that shows the extent to which 12 years of war in Syria have caused hatred and madness, even after such a cataclysm, "rebel" Idlib and " "official" Damascus are not cooperating to help the survivors together - the earthquake hit precisely the northwest of Syria, which has suffered heavily in the previous 12 years and is still practically a war zone, which raises the scale of the cataclysm and its consequences to unprecedented proportions.

Only in the part of the country under the control of the opposition live close to two million internally displaced persons, refugees in their own country, who even before the earthquake had tents for accommodation or some facility that could be quickly assembled, and their living conditions were far below any concept of normality .

Now they don't even have that It is no different in the surrounding areas under the control of the authorities in Damascus - the Syrian government has declared all areas in the northwest of the country, the provinces of Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia and Hama, as disaster zones.

Winter, hunger, despair and the policy of aid At the same time, An icy winter gripped the entire earthquake-hit area, aid workers and journalists on the ground say hunger and despair gripped hundreds of thousands of people who were left with nothing The organization Save the Children states that millions of children across northwestern Syria are in urgent need of food, shelter and warm clothing.

"The situation in northwestern Syria is currently the biggest crisis in the world .

" says Catherine Akils from this organization, adding that it is good that the first UN aid trucks have arrived, but that it is "only the tip of the iceberg".

From the moment the earthquake happened, the leaders of certain countries that are in a clinch with the authorities in Damascus, such as Great Britain and the United States, have emphasized that aid to Syria should in no way have anything to do with the authorities of Bashar al-Assad, which are under Western sanctions without specifying how this would even be possible and what the regime's sanctions have to do with humanity towards the victims of the cataclysm.

Now, along with announcements of aid to both Turkey and Syria (without specifying which of the "two" Syrias), different tones are heard, again calling out the Assad regime Thus, State Department spokesman Ned Price says that the US will continue to demand unhindered humanitarian access to Syria and calls on the government of the Syrian president to immediately allow aid through all border crossings.

And Syria's ambassador to Serbia, Bassem Jaman Agha, says: "Syria is ready to accept any aid We do not have enough equipment and machinery to rescue and search for the missing.

Some friendly states, as well as some Arab states, sent rescue teams and other types of aid by air, And that place is no longer Turkey, where millions of Syrian refugees already lived in the areas worst affected by the earthquake Even so far, that life has not been brilliant, but what it will be like after a catastrophe that Turkey does not remember and with which it will have a hard time coping, it is better not to think.

Then for those people, who are already multiple refugees both in their own country and in Turkey, the only solution will be to go further west, whatever walls, razor wire fences or similar obstacles stand in the way Read daily news, analysis, commentary and interviews at already to multiple refugees both in their own country and in Turkey, as the only solution is to stay further west, whatever walls, razor wire fences or similar obstacles stand in the way.

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