Turkish authorities are targeting contractors allegedly linked with buildings that collapsed in the powerful Feb. 6 earthquakes as rescuers found more survivors in the rubble Sunday, in the disaster that killed over 33,000 people.
As despair bred rage at the agonizingly slow rescues, the focus turned to assigning blame.
Two contractors held responsible for the destruction of several buildings in Adiyaman were arrested Sunday at Istanbul Airport while trying to leave the country, the private DHA news agency and other media reported. A pregnant woman was rescued Sunday in hard-hit Hatay province, 157 hours after the first quake, state-broadcaster TRT said, while HaberTurk television said a woman was found alive after 160 hours Nurdagi, Gaziantep.
He waved weakly as he was passed hand to hand on a stretcher as workers applauded and chanted, “God is great!” Hatay’s airport reopened Sunday after its runway was repaired, and military and commercial planes landed with supplies for the region and will take away evacuees. Tedros said WHO experts were waiting to cross into the northwest of Syria “where we have been told the impact is even worse.”
A U.N. aid convoy set to northwestern Syria through government-held areas was postponed due to obstruction from Hay’at Tahrir al Sham, an al-Qaeda affiliated group ruling Idlib province, a U.N. spokesperson told The Associated Press. Aerial photo of the historic Turkish city shows the scale of destruction and devastation caused by two powerful earthquakes that struck the country and neighboring Syria, in Antakya, southern Turkey, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023. Thousands of buildings collapsed. More than 28,000 people killed. Millions left homeless. In Antakya, the capital of Hatay province, scattered rescue crews were still hard at work but many residents had left by Saturday.
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