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Today, after a week of searching, what hope is there of finding the people who've gone missing since Turkey's earthquakes?

Before the earthquakes hit, Hato, which is in southern Turkey, was a province known for its outstanding beauty and diverse culture.

It's got an incredible history. There's Roman ruins, ancient synagogues, ancient churches, one of Turkey's last thriving Armenian communities.

It's a place that's known for its diversity and its multiculturalism, where you find lots of different sects and types of people living together.

People that have spent time there just talk about how incredibly special Hato is as a place.

And equally people that are from Hato will talk about how it's a place where the government in Ankara can offer a quite remote.

Ruth Michelson has been travelling around Hatoi province and into northern Syria to see how the two earthquakes which hit last Monday have reshaped these places and the people who called them home.

So we're in the centre of Samadhar, the destruction that we are looking at. It's very difficult to describe. There is rubble. It's almost as tall as the buildings around it, collapse buildings.

Samadhar is a town around 125 miles away from the epicenter of the earthquakes. Eight days on and the dust from the buildings that collapsed still hangs thickly in the air.

It's still unclear how many people are missing and how many are dead.

We're looking at across the street there is a, we're looking at what looks like the at least a three story home, two, two of them if not more.

Completely collapsed. It raised to the ground. You can see someone's curtains and the tree that used to be in front of their house, plastic chairs.

And it is, it is rubble. I mean there is nothing. Complete destruction.

It was two days before rescue workers got through to this area. Too late to offer much hope.

And I'm yet to meet anyone here with any expectation that most of the people they're finding will be pulled out alive.

Alongside the sadness and the grief that people are going through, there's another growing emotion and that's anger.

Anger that the rescue efforts came so late and anger at a government that people say is trying to absolve itself of responsibility.

And the biggest question here is, will we receive enough funding and investments over this district to get the process done?

And people are simply hopeless about this at this point.

We still had to do it all by ourselves and we're not rescuers.

We're just people living in the town not knowing a thing about how to pull bodies out of the earthquake.

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