On Tuesday evening, Luxembourg will dispatch a member of the Grand Ducal Fire and Rescue Corps' humanitarian intervention group to Turkey, offering support to the UN's emergency response team.

The CGDIS confirmed it would be sending a representative from their Humanitarian Intervention Team (HIT) to Turkey as part of their membership to the International Humanitarian Partnership (IHP) network.

Upon joining the United Nation's emergency response team for disaster assessment and coordination (UNDAC), the expert will assist in coordinating the search and rescue teams on the ground. UNDAC teams are managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), a long-standing partner of Luxembourg's Directorate for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs.

The CGDIS HIT is a specialist team which intervenes outside Luxembourg territory as part of international assistance in calamitous events. Their representative will deploy one of the first devices belonging to the mobile satellite telecommunications platform "emergency.lu" in order help restore telecommunications services in the region affected by the quakes.

"emergency.lu" is a mobile satellite telecommunications platform whose primary objective is to restore means of communication after a disaster. It is the result of a public-private partnership formed between the Luxembourg government and three Luxembourg companies (SES Telecom Services, Hitec Luxembourg and Luxembourg Air Ambulance SA). Luxembourg provides "emergency.lu" services for free to support global humanitarian action.