Search and rescue teams in Turkey saved this cat named Strawberry from the rubble of a collapsed building in the city of Hatay.
Amid calls for the Turkish government to send more help to the disaster zone, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited a"tent city" in Kahramanmaras, where people forced from their homes are living. He conceded shortfalls early in Turkey's disaster response but vowed that no one would"be left in the streets."
Turkey's disaster management agency said Wednesday that the recovered bodies of people who died in the earthquakes but cannot be identified would be buried within five days even if they remained unnamed. The agency, known as AFAD, said unidentified victims would be buried following DNA tests, finger printing and after being photographed for future identification.
Aid efforts in Syria have been hampered by the ongoing war and the isolation of the rebel-held region along the border, which is surrounded by Russia-backed government forces. Syria itself is an international pariah and under Western sanctions linked to the war. On Monday afternoon in the northwestern Syrian town of Jinderis, residents found a crying newborn still connected by the umbilical cord to her deceased mother. The baby was thewhen her family home collapsed, her father's cousin told the AFP news agency. The baby's father, mother, aunt and siblings perished.
Rescue workers carry Yigit Cakmak, 8-year-old survivor at the site of a collapsed building 52 hours after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck, on Feb. 8, 2023 in Hatay, Turkey. As many as 23 million people could be affected in the quake-hit region, according to Adelheid Marschang, a senior emergencies officer with the World Health Organization, who called it a"crisis on top of multiple crises.
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