Turkey shook by 'biggest disaster in the last century', says president Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- last year
"Tonight at 04.17, we were shaken by the biggest disaster in the last century after the 1939 Erzincan earthquake." During a press conference in Ankara, Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan announces that the country has received "offers of assistance from 45 countries", after a 7.8- magnitude earthquake struck in the early hours of the morning, killing at least 2,300 people in Turkey and Syria.