In the early hours of Monday morning, Turkey and Syria witnessed a catastrophic earthquake that shook wide swaths of neighbouring lands, affecting millions, claiming thousands of lives, and causing massive damage to infrastructure.
Social media is flooded with photographs and videos of mass destruction showing collapsed buildings, crushed cars, and emergency services performing rescue and recovery operations in freezing temperatures after the ancient city was reduced to piles of rubble. Further raising the wrath of a new humanitarian disaster in an area of the world already in the grip of crisis after being rattled by war, a refugee crisis, and deep economic troubles.
