TEHRAN, March 9 (Xinhua) -- An Iranian plane carrying 20 tonnes of humanitarian aid arrived in Türkiye on Wednesday as Iran's foreign minister visited the quake-hit zone in the country, Iranian official news agency IRNA reported Thursday.
The plane landed in the airport in the quake-hit city of Adiyaman in southern Türkiye, where Hossein Amir-Abdollahian paid a visit.
The Iranian foreign minister arrived in Türkiye's capital Ankara in the early hours of Wednesday, according to the Foreign Ministry's website.
Later in the day, he held a meeting and a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, where he expressed his condolences over the lives lost during the massive earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria in early February and reaffirmed Iran's support for the quake-hit people.
During his visit to the quake-stricken city, Amir-Abdollahian spoke with local officials and people and visited a camp established by Iran to shelter the displaced people and provide them with aid.
Iran has so far sent a number of humanitarian aid batches to Türkiye in the aftermath of the quakes that have killed over 50,000 in Türkiye and Syria. The quakes have been described by World Health Organization as the worst disaster the region has seen in a century. ■
