President Ranil Wickremesinghe has spoken to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a short while ago and extended his support for the people of Türkiye and offered assistance to the country.
Overwhelmed rescuers struggled to save people trapped under the rubble as the death toll from a devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria approached 5,000 on Tuesday, with despair mounting and the scale of the disaster hampering relief efforts.