On March 1, 2003, the ECS Executive Committee approved the release of the following statement acknowledging the devastation and impact of the natural disasters occurring in southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia:
The ECS community stands in solidarity with our valued members from Turkey and Syria in grieving the loss of more than 47,000 precious lives and counting, and the unprecedented destruction caused by the continuing series of devastating earthquakes that began striking the region with back-to-back earthquakes of magnitudes 7.8 and 7.5 on February 6, 2023.
