"In a tent in a park about 1km (0.6 mile) downstream from Antakya’s devastated old city, Patan treats close to 100 animals a day. She administers vaccinations, stitches wounds, and helps animals give birth and care for their sickly young. Birds chirruped and cooed from their cages inside the small tent."

Rescue teams treat animals saved from the rubble of #TurkeyQuake | #TurkeySyriaQuake #Earthquake #An | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/19/turkish-rescue-teams-treat-animals-saved-from-under-the-rubble

"Turkish interior minister Suleyman Soylu has updated the death toll in Turkey to 39,672, bringing the overall number of earthquake fatalities in both Turkey and #Syria to 43,360.

Friday’s figure is certain to increase as search teams retrieve more bodies amid the devastation caused by the powerful magnitude-7.8 earthquake "

#Turkey finds new survivors as quake death toll exceeds 43,000 | #TurkeySyriaQuake #TurkeyQuake #Earthquake

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/17/turkey-finds-new-survivors-as-quake-death-toll-crosses-43000

26 million people are displaced and are at risk.

"The disaster, with a combined death toll in #Turkey and neighboring #Syria exceeding 41,000, has ravaged cities in both countries, leaving many survivors homeless in near-freezing winter temperatures."

Nine survivors pulled from Turkey's rubble as #earthquake death toll passes 41,000 | #TurkeyQuake #TurkeySyriaQuake | Inquirer News
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1730070/nine-survivors-pulled-from-turkeys-rubble-as-earthquake-death-toll-passes-40000?utm_source=gallery&utm_medium=direct

"In Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, one of the areas hardest hit by the quake and where some citizens said it took emergency teams days to arrive, many sleep in their cars or in makeshift tents under market stalls, with nowhere else to go."

‘What shall we do?’ Millions displaced in #Turkey and #Syria after #earthquake | #TurkeySyriaQuake #TurkeyQuake | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/12/what-shall-we-do-millions-displaced-in-turkey-and-syria-after-earthquake

At least 24,596 people have been confirmed dead after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck on Monday, with multiple aftershocks.

Death toll likely to more than double says UN chief |#TurkeySyriaQuake #TurkeyQuake #Turkey #Syria
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/11/turkey-syria-earthquake-latest-news-updates-death-toll?page=with:block-63e78be08f08e495c6b30e19#block-63e78be08f08e495c6b30e19

"Forty per cent of the people who lived in this town could be gone,” said Sadık Güneş, an imam in #Nurdağı. His home had been next to the mosque, which collapsed. Without a place for their prayers, mass funerals in Nurdağı and the rest of southern Turkey are being celebrated outdoors.

No room for the dead as cemeteries in #earthquake-hit #Turkey and #Syria fill up | #TurkeySyriaQuake #TurkeyQuake | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/10/cemeteries-earthquake-turkey-syria-fill-up

On Thursday, February 9, the Philippine embassy said that there are 248 Filipinos in affected regions in Turkey, based on consular records. It said that it was trying to account for all of them, a process that may take days.

2 Filipinos dead in #Turkey #earthquake – DFA | #TurkeyQuake
#TurkeySyriaQuake #Philippines
https://www.rappler.com/nation/overseas-filipinos/dfa-report-death-toll-filipinos-turkey-earthquake-february-10-2023/

As the time approaches 2am in #Turkey and #Syria, here is a round-up of today’s news after Monday’s #earthquake, as the death toll has passed 21,000 | #TurkeySyriaQuake #TurkeyQuake | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/09/earthquake-turkey-syria-in-turkiye-2023-live-updates-latest-news-maps-quake-death-toll-kahramanmaras?page=with:block-63e572598f08398676706168#block-63e572598f08398676706168

Greece and Turkey have been at odds for decades over a range of issues, from territorial rights in the #AegeanSea to ethnically-split #Cyprus and migration, and tensions had rekindled recently.

#Greece has set aside a historic rivalry to send thousands of tents, beds and blankets to help those left homeless by the earthquake |
#TurkeySyriaQuake #TurkeyQuake #Syria #Turkey

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/09/earthquake-turkey-syria-in-turkiye-2023-live-updates-latest-news-maps-quake-death-toll-kahramanmaras?page=with:block-63e550cb8f08f78448b05028#block-63e550cb8f08f78448b05028

"Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has said the death toll in his country from Monday’s devastating earthquake has now reached 16, 170, bringing the combined total of fatalities in #Turkey and #Syria to 19,362."

#TurkeySyriaQuake: toddler rescued from rubble after three days as death toll passes 19,000 | #TurkeyQuake | latest news
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/09/earthquake-turkey-syria-in-turkiye-2023-live-updates-latest-news-maps-quake-death-toll-kahramanmaras?page=with:block-63e4ff278f08398676705c64#block-63e4ff278f08398676705c64

"Freezing temperatures deepened the misery Thursday for survivors of a massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria that killed at least 15,000 people, as rescuers raced to save countless people still trapped under rubble."

#Turkey-#Syria #earthquake updates: death toll nears 16,000 as 72-hour ‘rescue window’ passes | #TurkeySyriaQuake #TurkeyQuake | Guardian live news
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/09/earthquake-turkey-syria-in-turkiye-2023-live-updates-latest-news-maps-quake-death-toll-kahramanmaras?page=with:block-63e4865b8f08f78448b047a0#block-63e4865b8f08f78448b047a0

"In Kahramanmaraş and Pazarcık, rescuers comb the rubble, often finding only body parts. Some say help took too long to arrive'

‘It seems too late’: hope fading in #Turkey’s search for #earthquake survivors | #TurkeySyriaQuake | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/08/it-seems-too-late-hope-fading-in-turkey-search-for-earthquake-survivors

"In cities close to the quake’s epicentre, entire buildings have been reduced to rubble, while makeshift camps have been set-up by rescue crews"

Before and after satellite images show scale of #earthquake destruction in #Turkey | #TurkeySyriaQuake #TurkeyQuake #Syria | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/08/before-and-after-satellite-images-pictures-turkey-syria-earthquake-destruction

'Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip #Erdoğan has announced that the death toll from Monday’s quake has reached 8,754. Combined with the 2,470 known deaths in Syria, that brings the total official death toll to 11,224."

#Turkey and #Syria #earthquake: death toll passes 11,000 as anger grows over official response | #TurkeySyriaQuake #TurkeyQuaje latest updates
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/08/turkey-syria-earthquake-death-toll-homeless-disaster-latest-updates?page=with:block-63e380518f0827de5748fad7#block-63e380518f0827de5748fad7

"Here is a summary from Associated Press of some of the international aid efforts that are being sent to Turkey and Syria."

#Turkey and #Syria #earthquake: death toll nears 10,000 as anger grows over official response | #TurkeySyriaQuake
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/08/turkey-syria-earthquake-death-toll-homeless-disaster-latest-updates?page=with:block-63e359528f08f78448b03cbf#block-63e359528f08f78448b03cbf

"People in remote towns in southern Turkey described how relief efforts were stretched to breaking point, amid the destruction that spanned over a border region almost 650 miles long.

Desperation and anger grow in search for #Turkey and #Syria #earthquake survivors | #TurkeySyriaQuake | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/08/desperation-and-anger-grow-in-search-for-turkey-and-syria-earthquake-survivors

"Some 6,000 buildings, including apartment blocks such as the ones in Adana, collapsed as a result of the quake, according to Turkish officials. Ovgun Ahmet Ercan, an earthquake expert, estimates that 180,000 people or more may be trapped under the rubble, nearly all of them dead."

The scale of the disaster in #Turkey and #Syria keeps growing | #Earthquake #TurkeySyriaQuake | The Economist
https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/02/07/the-scale-of-the-disaster-in-turkey-and-syria-keeps-growing

.. and the numbers are still steeply rising.

The latest death toll from Monday’s catastrophic earthquake has passed 7,800 | #TurkeySyriaQuake #EarthQuake #Turkey #Syria | Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/07/turkey-earthquake-syria-in-turkiye-2023-live-updates-latest-news-map-magnitude-7-8-scale-quake-tremor-death-toll-gaziantep-kahramanmaras?page=with:block-63e2c8b48f0827de5748f5c1#block-63e2c8b48f0827de5748f5c1

"Sitting hunched in the rubble, Mesut Hancer keeps hold of 15-year-old Irmak as she lies on her bed beneath the slabs of concrete, smashed windows and broken bricks that were once apartments. Close to the father and daughter, a man with a sledgehammer tries to smash his way through the ruins."

Photo of Turkish man holding hand of dead daughter underlines #earthquake despair | #TurkeySyriaQuake | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/07/turkey-earthquake-man-photo-dead-daughter-hand