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 Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu, who is on working visit to Serbia, has delivered remarks Tuesday on mass media stories that Turkey has denied help from foreign countries after a devastating quake hit province of Van, reported “haber365.com”.

“I’m shocked by the news. We haven’t denied any help; we haven’t closed doors to anybody. We’ve received aid offers from 20 countries and our PM has praised all of them,” said Davutoglu.

Another Turkish paper “Hurriyet” published a story on Monday titled “Secret of Foreign Aids”. Zeynep Gyurjanli, author of the story, has noted: “The Foreign Ministry has thanked those who offered help, but has denied saying they didn’t need any help. Why have they accepted help from Azerbaijan and Pakistan? How are they guided to deny and to accept aid offer? USA, Germany, Greece and Poland were among the first countries to offer an aid. Armenian President has sent a message to Gul offering an aid.”

The columnist requested the Foreign Ministry to find out how they accepted aid from Azerbaijan and Pakistan. Turkish Foreign Ministry said that those countries didn’t offer any help, they sent their rescue groups without making any call.