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In Putin's net: humanitarian challenges in Syria

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  On Monday 6 February 2023 at 13.25 local time a disrupting earthquake of 7.8 magnitude devastated with twenty seismic shocks the regions of   central and eastern Turkey and the Syrian border. This has been, in the words of Erdogan, the worst humanitarian and natural catastrophy since 1939, when another quake invested the State, provoking 33000 dead and 100000 wounded people. This time the tragedy spikes higher numbers: 34000 dead people are recorded so far, half a million people in need according to the WFP and 141000 rescue personnel digging into the rubble, especially the white helmets, working in 10 provinces and the Who warns a second disaster as cold winter sets in. Almost uncountable the homeless and the Internal Displaced people, especially in Syria where the aftermath of the earthquake add up to the IDPs of the civil war. Thus, the data are dreadly alarming. What will happen thereafter is unlikely to be foreseen, both in Turkey where next June Erdogan will face the presid