After the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the death toll continues to rise.
However, there are still reports of miraculous salvage.
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Earthquakes
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: More than 46,000 confirmed fatalities.
"Worst natural disaster"
in Europe in a century: WHO calls for help.
Ex-Chelsea footballer
found dead: sad certainty after earthquake disaster
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news ticker about the earthquake in Turkey and Syria
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Update from February 18, 9:05 p.m .:
Twelve days after the devastating earthquake, helpers are still pulling bodies from under the rubble in Turkey and Syria.
The number of people killed by the earthquake in Turkey has now risen to 40,642.
This was announced by the head of the Turkish civil protection authority Afad, Yunus Sezer, on Saturday, according to the state news agency Anadolu.
In Syria, around 5,900 people have died in connection with the devastating earthquakes.
However, the number is only updated irregularly.
In total, more than 46,000 people lost their lives in both countries.
Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria: Rescues from rubble reported after 296 hours
Meanwhile, the reports of rescues from Turkey are still not coming to an end.
Helpers are said to have rescued three people, including a child, from the rubble of a collapsed house in Antakya.
They were buried for 296 hours, reported the state broadcaster TRT.
The report could not be independently verified.
However, the 12-year-old child did not survive despite medical treatment, the state news agency Anadolu said.
According to the information, the three people were a man, a woman and their child.
A video showed how the helpers brought the man and the woman to an ambulance on a stretcher and medics treated the child.
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A woman walks past the rubble of buildings that collapsed during the earthquake in Antakya.
© Bernat Armangue/dpa
Ex-Chelsea footballer found dead: sad certainty after earthquake disaster
Update from February 18, 10:10 a.m .:
Now it is sad certainty: Ghanaian Christian Atsu (31) died in the earthquake disaster in the Turkish-Syrian border region, as his advisor confirmed.
"It is with a heavy heart that I must announce to all who wish that Christian Atsu's body was recovered this morning," his agent Nana Sechere tweeted on Saturday.
“My deepest condolences go to his family and loved ones.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their prayers and support.”
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Christian Atsu had shot Hatayspor to victory.
Now he's dead.
© IMAGO / ActionPlus
Almost two weeks ago, there was hope when it was said that Atsu had been found alive under the rubble of a collapsed building.
But there had been a mix-up, said his agent Nana Sechere and his club Hatayspor.
Update from February 17, 5:41 p.m .:
According to a media report, the helpers and emergency services in the Turkish earthquake area achieved another miracle.
A 45-year-old man is said to have been rescued alive from the rubble in Hatay province after 278 hours, the state news agency Anadolu reported on Friday.
The report has not been independently verified.
According to the Turkish civil protection authority Afad, 40,000 people are still working in Turkey to rescue victims of the earthquake disaster eleven days ago.
Only on Thursday did the media report that a 17-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy were apparently rescued after ten days.
After the earthquake disaster: Syria's President Bashar al-Assad gives a speech
Update from February 16, 8:21 p.m .:
In a television speech, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made a grim connection between the earthquake disaster and the civil war he fueled in the country.
The consequences of the war, which has been going on for almost twelve years, have prepared the population for the earthquake, Assad said in a speech on state television on Thursday evening.
In the war that has killed more than 350,000 people since 2011, he has been brutally taking action against his own population.
He is accused of crimes against humanity, including the use of chemical weapons.
"The war, which drained resources and weakened capabilities, gave Syrian society the experience to deal with the earthquake," Assad said.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around 5,900 people died in the earthquakes in the Turkish-Syrian border region more than a week ago in Syria alone.
The number is likely to continue to rise.
"Syria was not an earthquake region for two and a half decades and was not prepared for such an earthquake," Assad said.
The emergency aid from allied countries helped to reduce the extent of the disaster.
He announced new measures to cushion the consequences.
Syrian authorities have provided temporary shelters and a new relief fund is being set up to help the victims.
The most important lesson from the disaster is that "we managed to weather the circumstances in our different areas," he said.
After the earthquake: Turkish rescue workers rescue a 17-year-old girl from the rubble
Update from February 16, 2:42 p.m .:
248 hours after the devastating earthquake in the Turkish-Syrian border area, Turkish rescue workers rescued a 17-year-old girl from the rubble.
Aleyna Ölmez, whose surname means "She who will not die" in Turkish, was recovered alive in the badly damaged town of Kahramanmaras on Thursday, rescue workers told AFP news agency.
"She seemed fine.
She opened and closed her eyes,” said miner Ali Akdogan involved in the rescue operation.
"We've been working here in this building for a week now," Akdogan reported.
"We are always happy when we find something alive - even a cat." The girl's uncle hugged the rescuers and tearfully said: "We will never forget you." Shortly after the girl was rescued, Turkish soldiers sent away journalists and local residents , because bodies were also recovered from the rubble.
Turkey: Helpers rescue 13-year-old boy from rubble after 10 days
Update from February 16, 10:45 a.m .:
On the tenth day after the earthquake disaster, bodies are still being recovered from the rubble.
According to the Istanbul Fire Department, a 13-year-old boy was freed after 228 hours in the city of Antakya.
Video shows firefighters and miners trying to approach the youth, who is then carried out of the rubble on a stretcher.
The information could not be independently verified.
The Turkish government has also increased the number of provinces affected by the earthquake disaster from ten to eleven, a spokesman for the AKP party reported on Wednesday.
According to the Afad disaster service, 36,187 people in Turkey have been killed in connection with the earthquake so far, as reported by the state news agency Anadolu.
So far there have been more than 3,800 aftershocks, the government wrote.
More than 100,000 people were injured, and around 13,200 are still being treated in hospitals.
5,900 deaths were recently reported from Syria.
Thousands in the border region are still missing.
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Rescue workers continue to search for survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings.
© Hussein Malla/dpa
Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria: Satellite images show the extent of the destruction
Update from February 16, 6:27 a.m
.: After the severe earthquakes, the dimensions of the force of nature are becoming more and more visible.
Recent drone footage from the state news agency Anadolu shows deep cracks in a district of Gaziantep in Turkey's Kahramanmaras province.
According to the Ministry of Cities, the earthquake in Turkey occurred in an area of 1000 square kilometers.
The erection of tent cities and soup kitchens have begun.
The ministry announced that construction work in the earthquake area is to begin at the beginning of March.
Syrian children donate to earthquake victims
Update from February 15, 8:01 p.m
.: While there has not yet been sufficient emergency aid for Syria, those affected are now receiving support from an unexpected source: children from the Syrian city of Raqqa have donated their pocket money and savings to the victims of the disaster, the activists said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Wednesday.
The money and clothes of the girls and boys should therefore benefit their peers in the country who were affected by the earthquake.
A video by the activists showed the children taking turns making donations.
Some of them also held signs with greetings for the camera.
"What hit you, hit us too," reads about it.
It was initially unclear to which regions the donations from the children from Raqqa should go.
The city, a former stronghold of the Islamic State (IS), is now under the control of Kurdish militias.
Civil protection in Turkey warns against staying in or near houses
Update from February 15, 3:15 p.m
.: Civil protection in Turkey warns people in the earthquake regions affected to stay in or near houses.
“There are very intense aftershocks.
We are dealing with an unusual situation," Afad's risk reduction department chief Orhan Tatar said on Wednesday.
More than 3,800 aftershocks were registered - 38 were therefore above magnitude 5. In addition, the earth's crust had shifted by about 7.3 meters.
National and international experts are in Kahramanmaras, the epicenter of the earthquake, to examine the geological consequences.
Nine days after earthquakes in Turkey and Syria: Dutch rescue team finds four people under rubble
Update from February 15, 2:19 p.m .
: According to their own statements, a Dutch rescue dog team rescued four earthquake victims alive from the rubble in the Turkish city of Antakya in the province of Hatay.
The rescue dog team RHWW announced on Wednesday that it was about three men and a child.
All four had been lying under the rubble since the earthquake catastrophe nine days ago.
The team said a father and his son were found during the night.
The other two men were rescued on Tuesday evening after the dogs had scented the tracks.
The team is deployed in the earthquake area with 28 helpers and nine specially trained dogs.
Already on Monday they had found a 13-year-old girl living in the same region.
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Earthquake disaster: Dutch team finds four people under rubble in Turkey.
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Update from February 15, 1:37 p.m
.: The images of the earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria shake the world.
The willingness to donate, also in Germany, is great.
A 56-year-old forgot her designer handbags on a tram in North Rhine-Westphalia, with thousands of euros for the earthquake victims.
Update from February 15, 10:32 a.m .
: Nine days after the earthquake disaster in south-east Turkey, there are media reports about the rescue of a living woman.
The 45-year-old was rescued in Kahramanmaras province on Wednesday morning, state broadcaster TRT reported.
She was therefore buried for 222 hours.
The information could not be independently verified.
Update from February 14, 8:02 p.m .:
After the release of additional border crossings, the United Nations brought more relief supplies to the earthquake areas in northwestern Syria.
A UN convoy consisting of eleven trucks had entered Syria via Bab al-Salam from Turkey, the UN emergency aid office Ocha confirmed on Tuesday.
At the same time, the Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), António Vitorino, stated on Twitter that the organization's goods had been delivered via Bab al-Salam.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had opened two more border crossings into Turkey to improve humanitarian aid in the disaster areas.
Bab al-Salam and Al-Ra'ee were to remain open for three months.
So far only the opening of the Bab al-Hawa crossing had been authorized by Damascus.
The border crossings are in rebel-controlled areas.
Turkey: Death toll after earthquake rises to 40,000
Update from February 14, 6.40 p.m .:
A good week after the earthquake disaster in the Turkish-Syrian border area, the number of deaths has risen to more than 40,000.
In Turkey alone, the number is 35,418, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, according to the state news agency Anadolu.
5,900 deaths were recently reported from Syria.
UN asks member states for $400 million for earthquake aid
Update from February 14, 5.40 p.m .:
In view of the humanitarian need after the earthquake in the civil war in Syria, the United Nations is asking its member states for almost 400 million dollars (372 million euros) in support.
This money should "help secure much-needed life-saving assistance for nearly five million Syrians - including shelter, health care, food and shelter," said UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday in New York.
At the same time, Guterres confirmed that the Bab Al-Salam and Al Ra'ee border crossings authorized by the Syrian government on Monday have been opened.
A convoy of 11 trucks is on its way to Bab Al-Salam to bring life-saving aid to Syria.
To improve humanitarian aid in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad opened two more border crossings into Turkey for deliveries.
Bab Al-Salam and Al Ra'ee were to remain open for three months.
So far only the opening of the Bab Al-Hawa crossing had been authorized by Damascus.
The border crossings are in rebel-controlled areas.
Earthquake in Turkey: 1000 children without parents
Update from February 14, 4:55 p.m .:
More than a week after the devastating earthquake in Turkey, the family members of around 1000 children have not yet been identified.
Family Minister Derya Yanik said on Tuesday that 792 of the children were being treated at the hospital and 201 were in the ministry's care.
Only 369 could have been assigned to their families and handed over.
She was impressed by the willingness of the population to take in children without relatives, said Yanik.
But she also pointed out that the rules for foster families or adoptions are very strict.
The priority is to find relatives of the unaccompanied children and place them there.
Earthquake in Turkey: time window for survivors actually closed - woman rescued after 205 hours
Update from February 14, 3:29 p.m .
: According to experts, the time window for recovering survivors of the earthquake from the rubble has long since closed.
But search and rescue teams continue to work in Turkey and Syria to find living people.
Now a 35-year-old woman is said to have been rescued from the rubble of a residential building in Kahramanmaras 205 hours after the catastrophic earthquake, the state news agency Andolu reports.
Update from February 14, 2:40 p.m .:
Eight days after the devastating earthquake in south-east Turkey, there are still media reports about the rescue of living people from the rubble.
On Tuesday morning, the rescue of two brothers (17 and 18 years) and an 18-year-old was reported after 198 hours each
(see first report)
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According to the state news agency Anadolu, a 26-year-old woman was rescued alive after 201 hours under the rubble in Hatay province.
The information could not initially be independently verified.
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A man walks through the rubble of collapsed buildings in Hatay.
© Hussein Malla/dpa
"Worst natural disaster" in Europe in a century: WHO calls for help
Update from February 14, 1 p.m.:
According to the World Health Organization, the earthquake in the Turkish-Syrian border area is “the worst natural disaster in the WHO Europe region in a century”.
WHO Regional Director Hans Kluge said at an online press conference on Tuesday.
He called for comprehensive help for the many victims of the earthquake.
The need is huge and growing by the hour.
Around 26 million people in Turkey and Syria need humanitarian assistance.
Tens of thousands of people died as a result of the earthquakes.
The full extent and the true costs are still not clear, explained Kluge.
Addressing those affected, he emphasized: “Your suffering is immense, your grief runs deep.
The WHO stands by you in your hour of need – and always – at your side.” The WHO has more than 50 countries in its Europe region.
In addition to the EU, these also include numerous countries to the east of it, such as Turkey, and several Central Asian countries.
Miracle salvage after almost 200 hours: Hope for survivors is fading
First report from February 14:
Damascus/Ankara - More than a week has passed since the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
In the early morning of February 6, the first 7.7-magnitude quake shook the affected border area.
Hours later, a second 7.6 magnitude tremor followed.
Since then there have been more than 2,400 aftershocks.
Ten provinces are affected in Turkey – there is now a three-month state of emergency.
Even eight days after the quake, there are still reports of miraculous salvage.
As the state news agency Anadolu and the broadcaster CNN Türk reported, helpers in the province of Kahramanmaras in southeastern Turkey rescued two 17 and 21-year-old brothers on Tuesday morning (February 14).
They were therefore 198 hours under the rubble.
In the province of Adiyaman, an 18-year-old who was also buried for 198 hours was rescued.
The information could not initially be independently verified.
The hope of finding more survivors more than a week after the earthquake in the Turkish-Syrian border area is fading.
"The rescue phase, in which people are being pulled alive from the rubble and the dead are being found under the rubble, is coming to an end," UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said during a visit to Aleppo, Syria, on Monday (13 February).
Rescuers from Germany also flew to the affected areas to free people from the rubble.
They reported on dramatic operations on site.
Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria: More than 37,500 confirmed fatalities
The confirmed death toll was more than 37,500 as of early Tuesday morning.
But experts fear that many more deaths are to be mourned - they are currently assuming at least 70,000.
More than 80,000 people were injured.
Thousands continue to be missing.
Survivors who are still being found must have had access to liquid - such as rainwater, snow or other sources.
Normally, a person can go about 72 hours, i.e. three days, without water.
After that it becomes life threatening.
This period has already been exceeded.
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More than a week after the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the death toll continues to rise.
© Hairul/dpa
Countless buildings and parts of the infrastructure were destroyed by the earthquakes.
Satellite images show the extent of the destruction.
A report by the Turkish business and business association Türkonfed estimates the damage at around $84 billion (around €79 billion).
According to the Presidential Office, 1.2 million people are staying in emergency shelters in south-eastern Turkey.
The severe earthquakes have also left visible traces in nature.
In the Turkish province of Hatay, an olive grove was split in half near the towns of Altinozu and Tepehan.
Drone images show the ruptured gorge.
The severe earthquake in the Turkish-Syrian border area could have been a cruel advance warning.
Because experts have been certain for a long time: A violent earthquake is also imminent in Istanbul.
(ph/dpa)
List of rubrics: © Bernat Armangue/dpa
