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Turkish FM to visit Iran quake site
ANKARA (AFP) Dec 30, 2003
 Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul will make a brief visit on Wednesday to the site of last week's devastating earthquake in southeast Iran, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Gul will remain a few hours at the quake site, to demonstrate Turkey's solidarity with the victims, the minister announced on Tuesday.

A powerful earthquake decimated the ancient city of Bam in southeastern Iran on Friday, claiming an estimated 40,000 lives and leaving tens of thousands homeless.

Iran's neighbour Turkey has dispatched medical and rescue teams, sniffer dogs and humanitarian supplies to the scene.

Turkish emergency workers have experience in responding to earthquakes -- two major tremors hit Turkey's northwest in August and November 1999, claiming about 20,000 lives.

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