Rescue efforts continue in Turkey as others in Syria are suspended, with chances of survival falling by the hour as the death toll exceeds 28,000.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged to rebuild more than 100,000 homes within a year
as he visited the disaster-stricken city of Sanliurfa on Saturday. More than 1.1 million people are staying in temporary accommodation centers, he said. Turkish officials are preparing infrastructure to create “container cities” to help displaced victims,, citing Turkish Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoğlu. Shipping container settlements have been used in the past during smaller-scale earthquakes in Turkey, as well as to house Syrian refugees who have fled their country’s civil war.
and called on the organization to “apologize to the Syrian people” for allegedly failing to communicate with the White Helmets and for “not providing relief to civilians impartially” in Syria, according to a
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