Turkey finally accepts humanitarian aid from Cyprus

Turkey has finally accepted an offer for help from south Cyprus to send search and rescue teams to assist in the humanitarian operations in the country after initially rejecting such offer.

Cyprus Foreign Ministry spokesperson Demetris Demetriou made the revelation on Wednesday.

Demetriou posted on Twitter that the EU Civil Protection Mechanism informed Cyprus that its offer to send a rescue team has been accepted by Turkey.

He explained that a mission of 20 rescuers will travel to Turkey to provide help after the devastating earthquakes which killed more than 10,000 people in Turkey and Syria.

On Tuesday, Foreign Ministry’s Permanent Secretary Kornelios Korneliou told Sigma TV that an initial offer of help was not accepted by Turkey.

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