'Where are you my love? We're looking for you': The aftermath of the Turkey-Syria earthquakes
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson joins Sky News correspondent Yousra Elbagir, who is in Gaziantep, a city in southern Turkey near the epicentre of the first earthquake, and speaks to Islamic Relief worker Mohammed Hamza in northwest Syria about the additional challenges faced by aid workers in a war zone.
Warning: This podcast contains graphic descriptions of the aftermath of the earthquakes throughout. You may prefer to skip over the descriptions of grieving relatives between 2.50 and 5.20 minutes, and 9.25 and 12.40 minutes.
Producer: Rosie Gillott
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
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| 0:38.9 | There's Hickup the Hippo with his darling chubby little legs legs. And Sunny the sloth beaming with his milk and white chocolate features. Toby the T-Rex, who's a bit green, |
| 0:44.6 | bit scary, but charming at the same time. And Ralph the Cavapoo. I almost don't want to bite |
| 0:50.6 | his scrumptious little nose right off, But I will. All of these cuties for just |
| 0:55.5 | £7 each. This is not just food. This is M&S food. Selected stores. Harrowing doesn't quite |
| 1:01.8 | begin to describe what we're seeing on the ground in Turkey and Syria. When the earthquake |
| 1:06.8 | struck in the wee hours of the morning, millions were asleep in their beds. The lucky ones woke to the world shaking around them. |
| 1:13.6 | The unlucky ones didn't wake at all. |
| 1:16.6 | Along a border area spanning some 650 miles, |
| 1:21.6 | buildings toppled as if built of sticks, not bricks. |
| 1:26.6 | We have seen people being rescued from the rubble. |
| 1:29.8 | Men, women, children, even a newborn, with umbilical cord still attached. |
| 1:38.1 | But so much time has now passed that what little hope there was was is now beginning to fade. |
| 1:46.0 | On this episode, with the death toll now well into five figures, |
| 1:50.2 | we'll be hearing from some of the worst affected areas of both Turkey and Syria. |
| 1:56.9 | So that lady is yelling, where are you, my love? We're looking for you. |
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