Iraqi parliament urges the government “open the borders” for relief campaigns in quake-hit Syria, Turkey

Iraq’s legislative body on Tuesday called on the government to “open the borders” for relief campaigns to aid the victims of the deadly earthquake that killed thousands in Turkey and Syria.

“With utmost sorrow and grief, we received the news about the earthquakes in the sisterly Arab Republic of Syria and friendly neighbor of Turkey,” an official statement said, “we, in Iraq in general and the Iraqi parliament in particular, announce our solidarity with the Syrian and Turkish people.”