President Hassan Rouhani expressed Iran�s readiness to provide neighboring Turkey with disaster relief after an earthquake struck the Turkish city of Izmir.

In a Saturday message to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Rouhani expressed deep sympathy with the neighboring country over the deaths and injuries in the quake that struck Turkey�s Aegean city of Izmir on Friday.

He also voiced the Iranian government�s readiness to provide whatever assistance and disaster relief necessary for the people of Turkey, hoping that calm would return to the quake-stricken regions immediately.

At least 27 people were killed in Turkey and two in Greece on Friday when a powerful earthquake shook the Aegean, collapsing buildings and reportedly trapping people under rubble.

The earthquake struck with a magnitude up to 7.0, was felt in Athens and Istanbul, and triggered a mini-tsunami on the Greek island of Samos, where a teenage boy and girl were killed.

Turkish officials said more than 800 people were injured by the earthquake.

 

Source: Tasnim