UPDATED. About 80,000 people are being treated in hospital, while 1.5 million left homeless by the quakes huddled in temporary shelters.
Rescuers in Turkey pulled more people from the rubble early on Saturday, February 11, five days after the country’ssince 1939, but hopes were fading in Turkey and Syria that many more survivors would be found.
In Turkey, 67 people had been clawed from the rubble in the previous 24 hours, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay told reporters overnight, in efforts that drew in 31,000 rescuers across the affected region. Across the devastated region, people were still awaiting news of missing loved ones. Soner Zamir and Sevde Nur Zamir were squatting on Saturday in front of a mangled building where his parents and grandparents lived.
Even before the quake, the vote was seen as Erdogan’s toughest challenge in two decades in power. Since the disaster he has called for solidarity and condemned what he called “negative campaigns for political interest.”
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