A high school student has captured Turkish hearts after he filmed a farewell message to his loved ones as he was trapped under the rubble.
The teen goes on to recount that he believes his family are dead, along with many others in the city, and that he will soon join them.
When The Associated Press spoke to the family on Thursday they were living in a government-provided tent, along with hundreds of thousands of others who survived the disaster that hit southern Turkey and north Syria, killing more than 43,000.Article content The Erdems’ younger children — daughter Semanur, 13, and 9-year-old son Yigit Cinar — were sleeping in their parents’ room when the quake hit.
Ibrahim Zakaria, a 23-year-old Syrian who was rescued in the coastal Syrian town of Jableh on Feb. 10, told the AP that he survived by licking water dripping down the wall next to him, slipping in and out of consciousness and losing hope of survival in his waking moments.“I almost surrendered because I thought I will die,” he said from his hospital bed. “I thought: ‘There is no escape.”‘
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Turkish quake victims sleep in trains, tents, greenhousesNearly two weeks after a massive earthquake leveled tens of thousands of buildings and displaced millions of people in Turkiye and Syria, many are still struggling to fulfill their basic needs and some are bedding down in tents, factories, train cars and greenhouses.
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Turkish teen filmed 'last moments' from quake-hit apartmentA 17-year-old high school student has captured Turkish hearts after he filmed a farewell message to his loved ones as he was trapped under the rubble of his home during last week's earthquake.
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Turkish teen filmed 'last moments' from quake-hit apartmentA high school student has captured Turkish hearts after he filmed a farewell message to his loved ones as he was trapped under the rubble.
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