UPDATED. The death toll keeps growing - exceeding 25,250 across southern Turkey and northwest Syria, as of February 11.
Rescuers in Turkey pulled more people from the rubble early on Saturday, February 11, five days after the country’ssince 1939, but hopes were fading in Turkey and Syria that many more survivors would be found.
In Antakya, body bags lay on city streets and residents were wearing masks to try to cover the smell of death. Ordinary people had joined the rescue effort, working without official coordination, said one who declined to give his name. Across the devastated region, people waited for news of missing loved ones. Soner Zamir and Sevde Nur Zamir were squatting on Saturday in front of a mangled building in Kahramanmaras where his parents and grandparents lived.
Even before the quake, the vote was seen as Erdogan’s toughest challenge in two decades in power. Since the disaster he has called for solidarity and condemned what he called “negative campaigns for political interest.”
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