{"id":5468,"date":"2023-02-15T17:20:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T17:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/?p=5468"},"modified":"2023-02-15T17:20:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T17:20:42","slug":"turkey-rescuers-say-voices-are-still-being-heard-under-the-rubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/en\/turkey-rescuers-say-voices-are-still-being-heard-under-the-rubble\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey rescuers say voices are still being heard under the rubble"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talia Kayali, Aliza Kassim Khalidi, Rhea Mogul and Sana Noor Haq, CNN
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Rescue teams in southern Turkey say they are still hearing voices from under the rubble more than a week after a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake<\/a>, offering a glimmer of hope of finding more survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Live images broadcast on CNN affiliate CNN Turk showed rescuers working in two areas of the Kahramanmaras region, where they were trying to save three sisters believed to be buried under the debris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the same region, emergency workers saved a 35-year-old woman who was believed to have been buried for around 205 hours, according to state broadcaster TRT Haber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two brothers \u2013 17-year-old Muhammed Enes Yeninar and 21-year-old brother Abdulbaki Yennir \u2013 were also pulled from collapsed buildings on Tuesday, the broadcaster also reported. Further east, in the city of Adiyaman, rescuers pulled an 18-year-old boy and a man alive from the rubble, while Ukraine\u2019s rescue team pulled a woman alive out of the rubble in the southern province of Hatay, according to CNN Turk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The location where Emine Akgul, 26, was rescued from under the rubble in Hatay, southern Turkey, on Tuesday, 201 hours after last week’s quake.Fire Department of Mersin Province\/Anadolu Agency\/Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eight days after the tremor and its violent aftershocks, more than 41,200 people have been confirmed dead across Turkey and Syria, and survival stories are becoming few and far between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UNICEF said it fears that even without verified numbers, it is \u201ctragically clear\u201d that the number of children killed following the quake \u201cwill continue to grow.\u201d
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James Elder, a spokesman for the United Nations children\u2019s agency, said 4.6 million children live in the 10 Turkish provinces hit by the disaster, while in Syria, 2.5 million children have been affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A woman sits on the rubble of her destroyed house on Tuesday in Kahramanmaras, Turkey.Nir Elias\/Reuters <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Earthquake victims injured in Kahramanmaras arrive at Ataturk Airport by military cargo plane of Turkish Armed Forces for further medical treatment in Istanbul, Turkey on February 14, 2023.Kadir Kemal Behar\/Anadolu Agency\/Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As rescue operations start to shift to recovery efforts, UN workers are racing to funnel aid to survivors in Syria through two new border crossings approved by the government in Damascus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United Nations welcomed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s decision on Monday to open \u201cthe two crossing points of Bab Al-Salam and Al Ra\u2019ee\u201d between Turkey and northwest Syria \u201cfor an initial period of three months to allow for the timely delivery of humanitarian aid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eleven trucks with UN aid crossed into northwest Syria via the Bab Al-Salam passage on Tuesday, UN aid chief Martin Griffiths tweeted, adding that 26 more trucks passed into the region via the Bab Al-Hawa crossing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news came after <\/strong>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday the two new border crossings that will take aid inside Syria from Turkey \u201care open and goods are flowing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres emphasized that human suffering from this natural disaster should not be made worse by manmade obstacles such as access, funding and supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UN is launching a $397 million humanitarian appeal for victims of the earthquake in Syria for three months and finalizing a similar appeal for survivors in Turkey, Guterres announced.
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International aid has been slow to arrive in rebel-held areas in northern and northwestern Syria. The situation has been complicated by years of conflict and an already existing humanitarian crisis that has led to further difficulties for survivors who lack food, shelter and medicine as they battle freezing winter conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said last week that any aid the country receives must go through the capital Damascus. But many Western nations have been reluctant to lift sanctions despite requests from Assad, as the measures were placed on his regime after it led a brutal campaign in which hundreds of thousands<\/a> of civilians have been killed during the years-long civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also on Tuesday, a Saudi Arabian plane carrying 35 tons of food, medical aid and shelter landed at Aleppo International Airport, in what is the first shipment of aid from the kingdom to government-held territory since the February 6 earthquake, Syrian state media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two more planes of aid are scheduled to arrive in Syria on Wednesday and Thursday, according to Faleh al-Subei, the head of the aid department at the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Turkey\u2019s Vice President Fuat Oktay has denied reports of food and aid shortages. There were \u201cno problems with feeding the public\u201d and \u201cmillions of blankets are being sent to all areas,\u201d he said on live television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey\u2019s Foreign Ministry said more than 9,200 foreign personnel are taking part in the country\u2019s search and rescue operations, while 100 countries have offered help so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Syrians pictured in the northwestern province of Idlib on Monday dig graves for their relatives who died as a result of last week’s deadly disaster.Anas Alkharboutli\/picture alliance\/Getty Images <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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People displaced by the earthquake take refuge in shelters and temporary camps on the outskirts of Jenderes, northwest Syria, on Monday.Rami Alsayed\/NURPHO\/AP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday, UN aid chief Griffiths said the rescue phase of the response was \u201ccoming to a close\u201d during a visit to the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd now the humanitarian phase, the urgency of providing shelter, psychosocial care, food, schooling, and a sense of the future for these people, that\u2019s our obligation now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After announcing an end to their search and rescue operation last week, the \u201cWhite Helmets\u201d group, officially known as Syria Civil Defense, on Monday declared a seven-day mourning period in rebel-controlled areas in the north of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Traumatized population\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The World Health Organization (WHO) stressed the need to \u201cfocus on trauma rehabilitation\u201d when treating populations stricken by the devastating disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WHO\u2019s Turkey Representative Batyr Berdyklychev highlighted the \u201cgrowing problem\u201d of a \u201ctraumatized population,\u201d forecasting the need for psychological and mental health services in the affected regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople only now start realizing what happened to them after this shock period,\u201d Berdyklychev said while speaking at a media briefing from the Turkish city of Adana on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WHO is negotiating with Turkish authorities to make sure quake survivors can access mental health services, Berdyklychev added, noting that many people displaced by the quake to other areas of Turkey \u201cwill also need to be reached.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHO Regional Director for Europe, Hans Kluge told the briefing that the \u201cimmediate priority\u201d for the 22 emergency medical teams deployed by the WHO to Turkey is \u201cworking particularly to deal with the high number of trauma patients and catastrophic injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CORRECTION: This story has been updated to clarify where the 18-year-old boy and a man were rescued, which was in the city of Adiyaman.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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