One month after powerful earthquakes devastated parts of Turkey and Syria, hundreds of thousands of people still need adequate shelter and sanitation, and an appeal for $1bn (£832m) to assist survivors is only 10 per cent funded, hampering efforts to tackle the humanitarian crisis.
The earthquakes and strong aftershocks have killed close to 47,000 people in Turkey, destroyed or damaged around 214,000 buildings and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless — making it the worst disaster in Turkey’s modern history. The UN estimates that the devastating tremors have killed around 6,000 people in Syria, mainly in the rebel-held northwest.
