{"id":273590,"date":"2020-10-31T07:02:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T11:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=273590"},"modified":"2020-10-31T07:02:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T11:02:57","slug":"no-filipino-casualties-in-turkey-earthquake-dfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/10\/31\/no-filipino-casualties-in-turkey-earthquake-dfa\/","title":{"rendered":"No Filipino casualties in Turkey earthquake: DFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_191219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191219\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-191219\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The DFA, meanwhile, said it would continue to monitor the situation in Turkey and stands ready to extend assistance to all Filipinos affected by the earthquake. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=56252750\">Photo By Patrick Roque, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 No Filipino casualties were reported in Turkey after a 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Aegean Sea on October 30, sending structures crashing down in nearby coastal towns, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Philippine Embassy in Ankara sought out news from the Filipino community groups under its jurisdiction and has so far not received any reports of casualties or injuries,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>In separate tweets, Philippine Ambassador to Ankara Raul Hernandez said about 24 people were killed in the earthquake, with more than 800 others injured.<\/p>\n<p>He said search and rescue operations continue in nine collapsed buildings and that local authorities are assisting people affected by the earthquake and a mini tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to feel quite strong aftershocks here. No reports of Filipino casualties. Our prayers and deepest sympathies to the families of the victims and those affected by this quake,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in solidarity with Turkey in these trying times,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The DFA, meanwhile, said it would continue to monitor the situation in Turkey and stands ready to extend assistance to all Filipinos affected by the earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>There at least 3,063 Filipinos in Turkey as of December 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 No Filipino casualties were reported in Turkey after a 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Aegean Sea on October 30, sending &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":191219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273592,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273590\/revisions\/273592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}