UNESCO sounds alarm over quake damage to Turkey, Syria heritage

A picture taken on July 3, 2016, showing the minaret of the mosque inside of the UNESCO-listed citadel, in the regime-controlled northern Syrian city of Aleppo and a picture taken on February 6, 2023, of the same tower following an earthquake. AFPPIX: The UN's cultural agency UNESCO said on Tuesday it was ready to provide assistance after two sites listed on its World Heritage list in Syria and Turkey sustained damage in the devastating earthquake.

A statement from UNESCO said it and partners had already carried out an initial survey of the damage of the quake which struck before dawn on Monday. Aleppo was Syria's pre-war commercial hub and considered one of the world's longest continuously inhabited cities, boasting markets, mosques, caravanserais, and public baths. But a brutal siege imposed on rebels by government forces left it disfigured.

The pre-dawn quake hit near Gaziantep in southeastern Turkey at a depth of about 18 kilometres , the US Geological Survey said.

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