The four men from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service joined the 77-strong UK rescue team dispatched to the two countries after massive tremors left buildings collapsed and tens of thousands of people dead.
Scots firefighters have told of the "biblical scenes" of disaster as they laid bare the devastation caused by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
He added: "Multi-storey buildings looked like they had been picked up and thrown back down on the ground again. Some buildings were upside down, some buildings were on their side. "We recovered a lady who had sadly died due to her injuries and her husband put his arms around us for reuniting his wife with his family, as he would never have been able to do that himself," the firefighter said.
Mr Armstrong, who works alongside Mr Gauld at Aberdeen's North Anderson Drive Fire Station, was key in the 20-hour operation to rescue the man and slowly lower him to safety using a rope system.
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