{"id":17477,"date":"2020-10-31T11:26:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T06:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=17477"},"modified":"2020-10-31T11:26:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T06:26:35","slug":"us-offers-condolences-to-turkey-greece-over-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/17477","title":{"rendered":"US offers condolences to Turkey, Greece over earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US on Friday offered condolences to Turkey and Greece over an earthquake in the Aegean Sea that has killed at least a dozen people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur prayers are with the people of Turkey and Greece after today\u2019s earthquake,&#8221; National Security Advisor Robert O&#8217;Brien said in a statement posted to Twitter, retweeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s great to see both countries putting their differences aside to help each other during a time of need. The United States also stands ready to assist,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan in turn was replying to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis who said he called the Turkish leader to voice Greece&#8217;s condolences and pledge solidarity as the countries recover from the devastating temblor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I offer my condolences to all of Greece on behalf of myself and the Turkish people. Turkey, too, is always ready to help Greece heal its wounds,&#8221; Erdogan said. &#8220;That two neighbors show solidarity in difficult times is more valuable than many things in life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At least 12 people were killed and more than 600 others injured in Turkey when a magnitude 6.6 earthquake jolted the city of Izmir on the Turkish Aegean coast on Friday, according to Turkey\u2019s disaster management agency, AFAD.<\/p>\n<p>Two children were reported dead on the Greek island of Samos.<\/p>\n<p>Read also<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/powerful-earthquake-hits-turkey-many-building-collapsed\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON The US on Friday offered condolences to Turkey and Greece over an earthquake in the Aegean Sea that has killed at least a dozen people. \u201cOur prayers are with the people of Turkey and Greece after today\u2019s earthquake,&#8221; National Security Advisor Robert O&#8217;Brien said in a statement posted to Twitter, retweeting Turkish President Recep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1466,1476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17478,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17477\/revisions\/17478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}