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Turkey’s engineers are looking for answers with hard hats and phone apps
Civil engineer Joel Pinarbasi volunteered to work in Turkey’s Samandag as part of the government’s building damage assessment team. “How can I get out of the building with four kids?” a woman asked Pinarbasi as he surveyed the damage at an apartment building. Turkey’s Environment and Urbanisation Minister Binali Yldrm has said that 50,000 more…
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Northern Syria, already ravaged by war, is unable to receive aid after the earthquake
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yldrm said on Saturday that the death toll from last week’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria has exceeded 15,000. The death toll in the two countries rose to more than 15,000 after thousands of people were rescued from the rubble, Yldrme added. Over 1,200 people have died in Syria due to…
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Syria could be left behind as aid is rushed into Turkey
The death toll from the magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Turkey on Sunday has climbed to over 1,200, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yldrm said. The number of injured has risen to nearly 1,900, he added. Yldrm said search and rescue operations are still underway for the remaining missing people. Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan said…
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The scientists know about the Turkey–Syria earthquake
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yldrm has said that search and rescue teams have pulled more than 8,000 people from underneath rubble of thousands of toppled buildings in the past two days. “People in Turkey are aware of their susceptibility to earthquakes,” a seismologist based in Istanbul said. The death toll in Turkey’s earthquake has exceeded…