I'm Nurbegum Demirai. I'm 27 years old and I was thinking last night. My life was perfect.

My house was very sweet. I love my life and now I can't go my home. I can't go my sweet home.

I woke up with a very noisy song, talk, talk, talk, talk, like this.

And then I looked around and everywhere I was shaking. And I sit on floor, I protect my head,

and I was thinking about this, I will die, I gonna die. I was thinking like this.

And I just waited. It was maybe one minute and 30, but it was feeling very long.

And then I just took my stuff quickly and I was saying go, go, go, go, my to my nervous,

go, go, go, go, and we went to outside. And when I see the city treat, I was feeling

thanks God I'm here and I'm outside. And everywhere I was looking crudist,

a lot of people shouting, crying, and shaking, was weakened, we had snow and everywhere was snow.

And it was rainy and was cold. A lot of people went outside without any jackets.

And I gave my scarf to them. You know I stayed, I stayed alive and I'm, I saw right, yes.

Oh, thanks God I'm saying always this, thanks God.

From New York Times, I'm Michael Borrow, this is a daily.

A powerful earthquake has killed thousands of people in Turkey and Syria and left dozens of

cities in ruins. Today, Sabrina Tevernisi speaks to witnesses on the ground and my colleague Ben

Hubbard reports from Istanbul. It's Tuesday, February 7.

Hi, it's Sabrina. Hi, Garo, can you identify yourself from me? Tell me your name, your age,

and your occupation? My name is Garo Pailan. I'm the member of the Turkish Parliament representing

the Erbacher. I am 50 years old. How are you doing? Yeah, so, so what can I say? I'm in the

Erbacher now. I'm just visiting the demolished buildings now. It's terrible. Even here, we are

250 kilometers away from the epicenter and still we have tens of demolished buildings here.

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