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Turkey-Syria earthquake is region’s ‘worst event in 100 years’ as death toll passes 24,000 – latest updates

Rescue efforts continue as UN warns hundreds of thousands of people urgently need food in wake of disaster

  • ‘My eyes were full of tears’: shooting the defining image of the quake
  • Have you been affected by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria?

Rescuers in Turkey pulled two women alive from the rubble of collapsed buildings after they were been trapped for 122 hours following the region’s deadliest quake in two decades, authorities said on Saturday.

The death toll exceeded 24,150 across southern Turkey and northwest Syria a day after the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said authorities should have reacted faster to Monday’s huge earthquake.

Our main goal is to ensure that they return to a normal life by delivering permanent housing to them within one year, and that they heal their pain as soon as possible.”

We focused all our energy to this project to serve people in the area impacted by the earthquake. We aim to provide a safe haven to them as soon as possible.”

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