(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 10 - The World Food Program "is launching an appeal for 77 million dollars to provide assistance with food rations and hot meals to a total of 874,000 people affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, including 284,000 newly displaced in Syria and 590,000 people in Turkey, including 45,000 refugees and 545,000 internally displaced people".
The UN agency reported it in a statement, underlining that it had delivered urgently needed food assistance to 115,000 people in Syria and Turkey in the first four days of the devastating earthquakes that hit the region.
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