MSF hands over emergency earthquake activities in Türkiye | MSF

In addition, our teams helped construct three centres – in Adıyaman, Kahramanmaraş, and Malatya provinces – which serve as essential psychosocial and living spaces. These centres are a safe haven in central locations, open to all people, especially to women and girls, offering psychosocial activities for children, washing machines, showers, and separate rooms for mothers with newborns so that they can breastfeed in peace. The centres will be supported by our teams, even after scaling down our activities.

“This is the fifth time in the last 30 years that MSF has worked hand in hand with local groups and staff to assist people affected by earthquakes in Türkiye,” says Ağbaş. “Either directly, or by supporting local NGOs, our teams responded to the earthquakes in 1996, 1999, 2011, and now in 2023. 

“As an independent, neutral and impartial international medical humanitarian organisation, we remain ready to support people in Türkiye in the future, should our assistance be required,” he says.