{"id":22118,"date":"2023-02-15T14:28:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/known-batswana-in-turkey-safe-official"},"modified":"2023-02-15T16:04:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T16:04:14","slug":"known-batswana-in-turkey-safe-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/known-batswana-in-turkey-safe-official","title":{"rendered":"KNOWN BATSWANA IN TURKEY SAFE &#8211; OFFICIAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Botswana\u2019s honorary consulate in Turkey has confirmed the safety of Batswana residing there following the devastating February 6 earthquakes which have so far claimed in excess of 30 000 lives.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is according to an official of Botswana\u2019s embassy to Swiss Confideration, Ms Mpho Mogobe who said the safety of the 18 Batswana known to be living in Turkey had been ascertained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the morning of the earthquake, the mission contacted all Batswana in Turkey that have registered with the embassy to find out whether they were safe and how they were doing,\u201d she said in an interview with BOPA yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Mogobe, whose accreditation covers Austria, Greece and Turkey said 15 of them were mostly self-sponsored tertiary-level students.<\/p>\n<p>She said through the cohort the embassy learnt of three more Batswana staying in the affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe discovered they were actually moving to safer places, being Ankara and Istanbul,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish ambassador, Mr Idem Akay, who only recently started his tour of duty, said the embassy had deferred travel of other Batswana students to Turkey following the earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>He said the students had been admitted at Gaziantep University to study food engineering unfortunately the institution was located in one of the regions greatly affected by the earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlready Gaziantep University has managed to contact the respective students enrolled to delay their travel to Turkey until the situation calms down,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Akay said the death toll from the back-to-back earthquakes which occurred in the south-eastern part of Turkey had surpassed 30 000 with about 80 000 injuries adding that the statistics were expected to rise given the magnitude clocked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are following the developments closely. Unfortunately, Turkey has had an experience with earthquakes, but this one is serious,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Until last week, Turkey\u2019s last serious earthquake had been in 1999 which resulted in the death of more than 18 000 people, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Akay said about 50 countries had already responded to Turkey\u2019s appeal for assistance by sending rescue teams and humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. Botswana\u2019s honorary consulate in Turkey has confirmed the safety of Batswana residing there following the devastating February 6 earthquakes which have so far claimed in excess of 30 000 lives. 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