Germany's interior minister said on Saturday that Germany would provide three-month visas to earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria who have families in the country..

“This is an emergency,” German Interior Minister Nancy Faezer told the Bild daily..

“We want to allow Turkish or Syrian families in Germany to bring their close relatives from the disaster area to their homes without bureaucracy”.

Faezer said those who qualify can have "

She added that the joint initiative with the Foreign Ministry would allow the victims to "

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About 2.9 million people of Turkish origin live in Germany, more than half of whom have Turkish citizenship.

The Syrian community is also large, estimated at 924,000 since former German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the borders to refugees in 2015 and 2016..

There were 118,000 Syrians in Germany in 2014.

According to the UN, the number of victims of powerful earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has already exceeded 25 thousand.