The race against the clock in Turkey and Syria
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Early last week, earthquakes hit southern Turkey and northwestern Syria. The death toll had surpassed 41,000 people by Tuesday. As rescuers continue the search for survivors in both countries, many people are sleeping in cars or tents.
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Last week, we talked with Post reporter Sarah Dadouch about the fatal earthquake that had just hit the Turkish and Syrian border. Now, we look at the aftermath in the wake of what’s being called Turkey’s biggest disaster.
Middle East bureau chief Kareem Fahim describes a death toll of tens of thousands, why the death toll was so high in Turkey and how foreign aid isn’t making its way to the areas in Syria that need it most.
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| 0:00.0 | It's been more than a week since massive earthquakes hit southern Turkey and northwestern |
| 0:09.6 | Syria. |
| 0:10.6 | By Tuesday, the death toll had surpassed 41,000 people. |
| 0:15.3 | And as far as we know, this may well be one of the worst affected places in Syria by the |
| 0:20.4 | earthquake. |
| 0:21.4 | Luisa Love Luck has been covering the devastation from Syria. |
| 0:24.6 | The people are standing in front of what was at home. |
| 0:37.6 | As you can see, they're trying to pull a young boy out of trouble. |
| 0:41.7 | They say that the child and their children are in a good life and dead. |
| 0:44.7 | But the problem is they don't have the equipment to do it. |
| 0:46.7 | They have these diggers, they're rudimentary. |
| 0:47.7 | People have already died in the rescue effort. |
| 0:48.7 | Even if they survive the day, it's just too late to get them out. |
| 0:51.2 | Two teams there have been working for days to try to find survivors. |
| 0:55.0 | There are also teams searching in Turkey. |
| 1:00.1 | So today we visited the town of Adya Man, which is in Southeast Turkey. |
| 1:05.4 | And it looks completely destroyed. |
| 1:09.6 | Karim Fahim is the Middle East bureau chief for the post. |
| 1:13.0 | He's been covering the disaster from Turkey, where so far, more than 8,000 survivors |
| 1:18.4 | have been rescued from beneath the rubble. |
| 1:21.3 | There's a lot of heavy machinery in the town today cleaning up some of this debris because |
| 1:26.6 | in many places, the rescue effort is over. |
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