Cigdem Guler within the Istanbul hospital the place she is admitted. Video: APTN
Cigdem Guler is 37 years outdated and one among 1,200 folks admitted to Istanbul Basaksehir Hospital after the earthquake. There she recovers from the bodily and psychological wounds after the drama she skilled within the first particular person. The 7.6 magnitude earthquake shocked her at her home in Antakya along with her husband and her two kids. For a number of days they have been trapped underneath rubble. Only she has survived.
“I assumed it was the apocalypse. We tried to get out however we could not. We felt how the home was collapsing and I instructed the youngsters to ‘run to the corners’, however we could not escape,” Cigdem instructed the AP company. “I could not hear the youngsters and my husband died on the second day,” she provides. Another of her daughters was not at residence that day and her whereabouts stay unknown.
Bekir Yildirim, is 75 years outdated and in addition survived. He lived on the fifth flooring of a seven-story constructing in Gaziantep, a metropolis near the epicenter. She was three days underneath the rubble till she managed to be rescued. “She was in shock. I could not transfer, I could not do something. The very first thing I keep in mind is screaming ‘can anybody hear my voice? Can you hear me?’ hitting my hand towards the bottom. But I can not keep in mind if this occurred two or three hours later as a result of she was unconscious on the time,” she says from the identical hospital.
Two weeks of the earthquakes
It has been two weeks because the floor trembled in Turkey, in probably the most devastating earthquake in a century. Rescue efforts have been definitively suspended in many of the affected provinces, besides for 2: Hatay and Kahramanmaras, as confirmed by the president of the Turkish nationwide emergency service, Yunus Seker.
The official loss of life toll from the 2 earthquakes that struck southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria exceeds 46,000, solely 41,000 in Turkey the place round 100,000 buildings have collapsed. Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay has detailed that greater than 374,000 folks have already been evacuated from the affected areas, together with practically 1,600 unaccompanied kids.
Asim Korkut, 40, is one other of the survivors of the earthquakes. He exhibits varied social media posts from the earthquake-hit metropolis of Adiyaman. In the images we see a graffiti that learn “Aciyaman”, a play on phrases in Turkish with “Aci” which implies “ache” and the date of the earthquake. An more and more widespread sentiment in a rustic devastated by tragedy.