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🇦🇱 Albanian prime minister Edi Rama said a "solidarity rescue mission" would leave on 6 February.
 * 🇩🇿 Algeria dispatched a first group of 89 Civil Protection agents to Turkey to participate in rescue and relief operation.
 * 🇦🇲 Prime minister Nikol Pashinyan said Armenia stood ready to provide assistance.
 * 🇦🇺 On the 7th February 2023, the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese announced an initial humanitarian package worth AU$10 million to aid the recovery in Turkey and Syria. Albanese also expressed his 'thoughts and condolences with the people in this region who are suffering at this time.'
 * 🇦🇹 Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Austria will send 84 soldiers from its Disaster Relief Unit to Turkey, and pledged €‎3 million for aid organisations.
 * 🇦🇿 President Ilham Aliyev said that Azerbaijan will send a search and rescue team of 370 people to Turkey. He also ordered to dispatch rescue forces of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Emergency Situations. The ministry also sent another aircraft carrying first aid kits, tents, bedding, medical supplies, and other necessary equipment to help those affected in Turkey. It was reported that entertainment venues in Baku suspended streaming music in solidarity with Turkey.
 * 🇧🇪 Belgium will send the B-FAST team to provide medical assistance. Flemish prime minister Jan Jambon pledge 200,000 euros for aid.
 * 🇧🇦 Security minister Nenad Nešić said Bosnia and Herzegovina will send a group of 50 Civil Protection agents to provide assistance.
 * 🇧🇬 Bulgaria was among the first EU countries to offer help and dispatch medical rescue teams, including two Bulgarian Air Force C-27J Spartan planes with a medical team from the Military Medical Academy, teams of the Fire Safety and Protection of the Population Service and Sofia Municipality. The Interior Ministry sent 58 firefighters and rescuers with rescue gear, dogs, and 20 pieces of equipment, while the Bulgarian Red Cross sent a search and rescue team of 12 rescuers and five dogs from the Mountain Rescue Service.
 * 🇨🇦 Prime minister Justin Trudeau said Canada is ready to provide assistance.
 * 🇨🇴 President Gustavo Petro pledged that the Colombian foreign ministry would "establish contact in order to help concretely".
 * 🇨🇳 China declared that they were ready to send aid to Turkey.
 * 🇭🇷 Prime minister Andrej Plenković announced Croatia will send a search and rescue team of 40 people to Turkey.
 * 🇨🇾 Cyprus said it was ready to send help to Turkey.
 * Prime minister Petr Fiala said that the Czech Republic would "provide help to Turkey via the 68 members of USAR team leaving today at 2 p.m."
 * 🇪🇬 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Egypt was "ready to help to face this disaster".
 * 🇸🇻 The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, said "My government is ready to provide all necessary assistance to the government of President Erdogan."
 * 🇪🇪 Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said Estonia is ready to send urban search and rescue and medical teams.
 * 🇫🇮 President Sauli Niinistö has expressed his condolences by sending a letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Prime Minister Sanna Marin also shared her condolences on Twitter.
 * 🇫🇷 Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin said France will send 139 civil security rescue workers.
 * 🇩🇪 German chancellor Olaf Scholz and foreign minister Annalena Baerbock both pledged help.
 * Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has ordered to provide emergency support to Turkey. 60 Firefighters with relevant rescue gear and machinery were dispatched to Turkey.
 * 🇬🇷 A team of 21 firefighters, 2 rescue dogs and a special rescue vehicle were dispatched to Turkey from Elefsina on a Lockheed C-130 Hercules. Following the team was a fire brigade officer-engineer, 5 doctors and rescuers from the National Center for Emergency Care. Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis phoned the Turkish president, pledging further quake-relief assistance. Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and Defence Minister Panos Panagiotopoulos spoke with their Turkish counterparts, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Hulusi Akar, to express their condolences and readiness for providing aid. Greece's swift response to the humanitarian crisis in Turkey contributed to the hashtags "Teşekkürler Yunanistan" and "Teşekkürler komşu", translating into "Thank you, Greece" and "Thank you, neighbor" respectively, becoming popular on Twitter.
 * 🇮🇳 Prime minister Narendra Modi said that India was "ready to offer all possible assistance to cope with this tragedy." Two teams from India's National Disaster Response Force comprising 100 personnel with specially trained dog squads and equipment were ready to be flown to the disaster area for search and rescue operations. Medical teams were being readied and relief material was being sent in coordination with the Turkish authorities.
 * 🇮🇷 Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi expressed Iran's readiness to provide "immediate relief aid." Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said that Iran is ready to send health and aid teams to our neighbor Turkey and Syria. He described the aid as a “moral, human and Islamic responsibility.”
 * 🇮🇶 Iraq said it would send civil defense teams to Turkey and Syria with emergency and relief supplies, food and fuel.
 * 🇮🇱 Benjamin Netanyahu said he instructed authorities to provide medical aid. Foreign Minister Eli Cohen spoke with Turkish counterpart, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and discussed the dispatch of rescue teams and assistance.
 * 🇮🇹 Foreign minister and deputy prime minister Antonio Tajani said, "I just met with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to express Italy's closeness and to have our civil protection ready." Italian military said that transport flights will carry equipment as well as health and other personnel.
 * 🇯🇵 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan said it would send 75 rescue workers. Japan sent the Japan Disaster Relief Rescue Team (JDR) to Turkey in order to conduct search and rescue operations.
 * 🇰🇿 Kazakh president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev offered assistance and emergency aid to Turkey.
 * President Vjosa Osmani said that Kosovo was "ready to provide the necessary assistance through the Kosovo Security Force" A specialized contingent was sent to Turkey later that day.
 * 🇰🇼 Emir of Kuwait Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah ordered the establishment of an air bridge to send "urgent aid and medical staff".
 * 🇱🇧 The Lebanese General Directorate of Civil Defense dispatched 20 members to provide assistance in Turkey. The Lebanese Army will send 20 members of the Engineering Regiment to Turkey to participate in search and rescue operations.
 * 🇱🇹 President Gitanas Nausėda said that Lithuania is ready to send help.
 * A team of 40 rescuers and 22 special forces members were sent by North Macedonia, including around €100,000 in financial aid, 10,000 blankets and 200 sanitary stretchers.
 * 🇲🇾 Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim approved the deployment of 75 members of the SMART search and rescue team to assist in relief efforts.
 * 🇲🇽 President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Mexico would send rescue teams to both countries.
 * 🇲🇩 Moldova announced its readiness to send a mission consisting of 55 rescuers, 2 rescue dogs, and 12 fully autonomous intervention vehicles.
 * 🇲🇪 Montenegrin president Milo Đukanović expressed condolences on behalf of the country, and offered any help needed.
 * 🇲🇦 Morocco pledged to send a group of specialized recovery teams to Turkey and the Syrian border to help in the rescue efforts.
 * 🇳🇱 Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke Hoekstra announced that the Netherlands will send a search and rescue team to Turkey.
 * 🇵🇰 The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has been instructed to mobilize all available resources including winterized tents, blankets and other critical life-saving supplies. Urban Search and Rescue Teams comprising docters, paramedics trained to operate in disaster hit areas have been dispatched with their equipment and medicines. Pakistan said two C-130 planes would leave on Tuesday for Turkey, carrying relief and 36 search and rescue personnel.
 * The Palestinian ambassador to Syria announced the death of 8 Palestinian refugees, including three children. President Mahmoud Abbas instructed the country's embassy in Damascus to provide all that is necessary to support the families of the victims.
 * 🇵🇱 A special group of the Polish State Fire Service, consisting of 76 firefighters and 8 rescue dogs, was sent to Turkey.
 * 🇶🇦 Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said a search and rescue group will fly to Turkey through an air bridge, carrying specialised rescue vehicles, relief aid, tents and winter supplies.
 * 🇷🇴 Three aircraft of the Romanian Air Force that have on board teams specialized in search and rescue interventions of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations of Romania (IGSU) and SMURD medical teams, consisting of 60 members, 4 rescue dogs, and related specialized equipment, left for Turkey on 6 February following the disaster.
 * 🇷🇸 Serbia dispatched two special teams (28 people) and liaison officers to help Turkey along with equipment for breaching and cutting, lifting, rescue, work at heights, and electronic search.
 * 🇸🇰 Prime Minister Eduard Heger announced that 13 firefighters and two mountain rescuers with dogs would travel to Turkey.
 * 🇸🇮 The Government of Slovenia announced that it will be dispatching three civilian experts for assessing the damage and coordinating rescue efforts.
 * 🇷🇺 The Emergency Situations Ministry said that two airlifters and firefighting aircraft (Ilyushin Il-76 cargo planes) with 100 rescuers were on standby to help with relief efforts. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered Russian forces in Syria to help with the rescue effort.
 * 🇰🇷 South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol pledged humanitarian assistance for both Turkey and Iran.
 * 🇪🇸 Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez said, "At the request of the European Civil Protection Mechanism, the Ministry of Interior, through the General Directorate of Civil Defense and Emergencies, activated the Military Emergency Unit and emergency air transport for support in search missions".
 * 🇸🇪 Foreign minister Tobias Billström said, "As Sweden's EU Presidency, we will reach out to Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Syria to coordinate EU efforts to assist these countries in this disaster."
 * 🇨🇭 The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs announced that 80 specialists and eight rescue dogs would be deployed to Turkey on 6 February. In addition, targeted aid for Syria was to be considered.
 * 🇹🇼 President Tsai Ing-wen announced a donation of $200,000 in disaster relief. The Taiwanese government also sent a team of 40 people, 3 rescue dogs and 5 tons of equipment to assist in rescue operations, followed by another team of 90 people and 2 rescue dogs.
 * 🇺🇦 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered assistance to Turkey. Foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba stated that Ukraine stands ready to send a large group of rescue workers to Turkey to assist crisis response and is working closely with the Turkish side to coordinate their deployment.
 * The United Arab Emirates pledged to set up a field hospital in Turkey.
 * 🇬🇧 British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said that 76 search and rescue specialists, equipment and rescue dogs would arrive in Gaziantep.
 * 🇺🇸 President Joe Biden said he "authorized an immediate US response" to the earthquake in Turkey, and that "US-supported humanitarian partners" are responding in Syria.
 * 🇺🇿 President Shavkat Mirziyoyev ordered a search-and-rescue team and humanitarian aid sent to Turkey.

Organisations

 * Arab League secretary-general Ahmed Aboul Gheit called for international assistance to help those affected by "this humanitarian catastrophe".
 * 🇪🇺 The European Union's High Representative Josep Borrell and European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič said in a statement that ten rescue teams from Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, France, Greece, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland and Romania were dispatched to Turkey. The Copernicus Programme was also activated to provide emergency mapping services. European Civil Protection Mechanism, which Turkey is also a member of, was also activated at the request of Turkey.
 * NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said that member countries were mobilizing support.
 * 🇺🇳 Several United Nations agencies announced coordinated responses to the disaster, including UNDAC, OCHA, UNHCR, UNICEF and IOM. The World Health Organization's Regional Director for Europe, Hans Kluge, said the organization's regional offices were assisting international efforts to transport medicine and relief equipment.
 * REDOG, a Swiss search and rescue dog service, said it plans to send 22 rescuers and 14 dogs to Turkey.
 * Norwegian Refugee Council, a humanitarian, non-governmental agency, said that they would provide direct support to those most affected across Syria. They appealed to the international community for the immediate mobilisation of financial resources to support collective relief efforts in Syria and southern Turkey.
 * CARE Australia launched an emergency appeal to provide emergency aid including food, shelter, water and other lifesaving supplies to those affected by the earthquakes.


 * India launched an Aircraft with NDRF Personnal, Trained Snifer Dogs, Advanced Drilling Equipment and Emergency Aid to Turkiye & Syria