Waiting for the dead: Fury over Turkey quake response

By Agence France-Presse

Feb 09, 2023 12:30 am

GAZIANTEP, Turkey: With every passing moment, Ebru Firat knows the chances of finding her cousin alive under the rubble of a flattened building in the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep grow dim.

And with that fading hope, the 23-year-old's grief is being replaced by rage at the government's earthquake response.

FLATTENED Rescuers search for survivors in a collapsed building in the city of Gaziantep, close to the earthquake’s epicenter, in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. AFP PHOTO

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