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People buried under rubble for up to seven days are still being pulled out alive.

Residents of rural areas in south-eastern Turkey have been struggling to overcome the consequences of the 7.8 magnitude deadly earthquake which hit Syria and Turkey a week ago.Polat, a village located approximately 100 kilometres from the quake epicentre, has almost been entirely ruined.Unlike bigger towns, government help came to Polat…

She had been trapped under the rubble of a five-storey building

Turkish rescue efforts wind down amid grief and anger while UN calls for aid access to north-west Syria

CHITOSE, Hokkaido -- A government airplane for carrying medical resources and equipment departed from the Air Self-Defense Force's Chitose Air Base in Chitose, Hokkaido, on Monday morning as part of emergency international aid to Turkey, where a powerful earthquake struck last week.

Anger grows at ‘slow’ response from rescuers, as some claim disparities based on politics and religion

Search and rescue teams are still at work amid an apocalyptic landscape in Nurdagi, a southeastern Turkish town near the epicentre of the January 6 earthquakes. But at this point they are looking for the remains of the dead, not survivors.

Turkey's Disaster Management Authority (AFAD) is tasked with coordinating search, rescue and aid efforts in response to earthquakes, floods, forest fires and other emergencies. [L1N34Q1CN]

Kevser said she could hear her two sons trapped beneath the rubble of their collapsed apartment building in the Turkish city of Antakya but for two days she was unable to find an emergency response leader to order their rescue.

The phase of the rescue after the major earthquake struck Turkey and Syria a week ago is "coming to a close" with urgency now switching to shelter, food, schooling and psychosocial care, the U.N. aid chief said during a visit to Syria on Monday.

In the Turkish town of Elbistan, a young man sat atop a pile of collapsed concrete and twisted metal, staring for half an hour at a small opening in the ruins of what had been his family's home.