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They are fighting for a human life: A professional German rescue team works around the clock in a collapsed building.
A 40-year-old woman is buried in the rubble – Zeynep is alive.
Original sound:
'It's about five feet away. I can see she's breathing. I can speak to her, she answers. With a hose like that, we can give her something to drink. We're trying to comfort her, give her some relief while we work up there."
The house collapsed in one of Monday morning's earthquakes in the municipality of Kırıkhan, near the hard-hit city of Hatay, in southern Turkey.
At the time of this recording it is Thursday, almost 72 hours later.
Rescuers have been trying to rescue Zeynep for 36 hours.
First they had to locate the woman precisely and then slowly work their way through – concrete layer by concrete layer.
Bastian Herbst, doctor organization ISAR:
»The colleagues are currently working on the last record. Then we'll drill a hole, stick the camera in, and see how we continue. She's on her stomach and of course that makes the recovery quite difficult because we actually have to rotate her to get her out the top. It is currently supplied with water. We put a line that she drinks from. She does it independently. She speaks."
Zübeyde, the victim's sister, can speak to her briefly.
Then the emergency services continue to work their way forward.
In many places in Turkey and Syria, there is a lack of equipment, expertise and support for rescue work.
Employees of the German organization "International Search and Rescue" together with Turkish colleagues have been on the road with special rescue dog units in the region around Hatay for several days to search for survivors.
Temperatures drop below freezing here at night.
Many people spend the night in cars or under the open sky - including the sister of the buried Zeynep.
It's Friday night.
Benno Riehl, ISAR:
'I was up there for about an hour with the jackhammer, everything. You could only hear her crying and howling. At first I wasn't sure: is it, isn't it? All this time we reassured her, reassured her. You have to imagine, it's a hell of a journey for a woman when she hears people lifting over it - and that for 50 hours. We've been on it for 50 hours."
The catastrophe hit the families of the victims hard.
The sisters are still alive - but they have lost several relatives, including five children.
Zeynep lies under the rubble with her dead husband and their three dead children.
The German rescue team is doing everything possible to ensure that at least she can be rescued alive.
Benno Riehl, ISAR:
“We're above her now and we're on top of her now, on her side so a doctor could feel her. He's already frisked her. He was as far as his arms could get. It's good that we could touch them. She notices that. That means she gets her strength back. And yes, we hope now that we can get the opening big enough and that we can get it loose enough to move it and then get it to the hospital.”
Then, on Friday afternoon, the redeeming news: The German task force pulls Zeynep out of the rubble, alive – 104 hours after the earthquake.