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Deutsche Telekom says calls between Germany, Turkey, Syria free for week
7 February 2023 18:55 GMT
The German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom has said it was making all calls from its network between Germany, Turkey and Syria free for a week as part of its response to the earthquake.
The offer will run retroactively from midnight on 6 February until 15 February, the company said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that it would also donate $1.1m in aid.
In addition to free calling, customers of Telekom and its subsidiary Congstar in Turkey and Syria will be able to roam for free.
Germany is home to the world's largest Turkish diaspora, with more than three million ethnic Turks residing in the country. It also hosts roughly a million Syrian refugees who fled the country's civil war.