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Syrian refugees living in Turkey have again been forced to flee after the latest earthquake caused further damage to an already devastated region. The magnitude 6.4 quake centred in Turkey's Hatay province struck on Monday. Turkish authorities say the quake killed six people. It struck less than two weeks after massive tremors hit the region killing more than 47,000 people and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless.

Many Syrian refugees in Turkey are once again forced to flee, carrying whatever belongings they have been able to salvage from destroyed homes. Much-needed humanitarian aid has been delayed due to the fractures of the ongoing civil war. Since the disaster, more than 140 trucks carrying UN aid have entered from Turkey to rebel-held Syria. But cross-border aid has been slow to reach the worst affected.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser traveled to southern Turkey on Tuesday to visit areas hit by devastating earthquakes two weeks ago. Faeser reiterated Germany's "deeply felt solidarity" with the victims. "The survivors, who have lost everything, need winter-proof shelters quickly," the interior minister said before departing for Turkey. After visiting a tent city near the southeastern settlement of Kahramanmaras, located near the epicenter of the quake, Faeser said it "just broke her heart." Baerbock said that the two ministers made the visit in order to "make it clear to the people that our sympathy is not limited to words and will not diminish even if the catastrophe and its aftermath are pushed away by other headlines in the news." Baerbock said she could "hardly put into words" how she felt as she surveyed the devastation in southern Turkey.

The death toll from the earthquakes is now 42,310 in Turkey and 3,688 in Syria, according to authorities.

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