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Daily Nation
| over 1 year ago
Friday Rescuers Friday pulled a 12-year-old boy from the rubble of Turkey's earthquake after he had lain trapped more than 100 hours, as the death toll in the disaster rose to 573. The end of Ferhat Tokay's 108-hour ordeal gave fresh hope to rescue...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
Rescue workers in Turkey pulled a teenage boy out of the rubble Friday, more than 100 hours after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake decimated much of the country's southeast on Sunday. Ferhat Tokay, 13, was found hours after rescuers found another young man...
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GMA News
| over 1 year ago
Rescue workers pulled out a 13-year-old boy alive from the rubble of an apartment block early on Friday, five days after a powerful earthquake that killed more than 500 people in eastern Turkey. The rescue lifted Turkish spirits as thousands of quake...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
In this image taken from a video footage by Anatolia, rescuers pull Ferhat Tokay, 13, center left, from the rubble of a collapsed building in Ercis, Van, Turkey, early Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Turkey: Rescuers in eastern Turkey plucked a 12-year-old...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Kurdish Turks in Ercis, Van, wait for international shipments of tents and prefabricated houses while withstand the rain, freezing cold. Rescue workers pulled out a 13-year-old boy alive from rubble early on Friday, over 100 hours after an earthquake...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Named Ferhat Tokay, the 13-year-old boy was found alive late on Thursday and pulled out from the wreckage by rescuers in early Friday morning. He was then taken to the hospital in Sahara, BBC News reported. According to a rescue official, the boy's...
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Al Jazeera English
| over 1 year ago
32 A 13-year-old boy has been pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in the eastern Turkish town of Ercis, more than 100 hours after an earthquake killed at least 530 people. Ferhat Tokay's rescue early on Friday came just hours after...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 1 year ago
Story continues below Praying that Friday will bring more tents and less rain, people in Ercis, the worst hit town, needed every bit of good news as hope ran out of finding any more survivors beneath the fallen buildings...With most search operations...
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Epoch Times
| over 1 year ago
Oct 27, 2011 Homeless survivors, of the major earthquake of 7.2 magnitude, outside a Red Crescent tent, in Ercis, on Oct. 27, 2011. (Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images) The death toll following Sunday's earthquake in Turkey has reached 534, as relief...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 1 year ago
A teenager who spent more than four days trapped in the rubble of the Turkish earthquake was rescued overnight, but hopes of finding any more survivors are fading. As the official death toll from the earthquake which hit the country's south-east rose...
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Fox News
| over 1 year ago
Turkey Rescue teams on Thursday pulled a 19-year-old student out of the wreckage of Turkey's devastating 7.2-magnitude earthquake after the teen spent 91 hours stuck in the rubble. The teenager, named Mohammed, was rescued from the debris of a five-...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
Turkey Rain and snow are compounding difficulties for thousands rendered homeless in the powerful earthquake that hit eastern Turkey. Authorities are delivering more tents Thursday after acknowledging initial problems in the distribution of aid for...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 1 year ago
Around 500 people were killed in the magnitude 7.2 quake, and authorities are working around the clock to provide survivors with food and shelter amid freezing conditions. Here Mr Darg shares his photos from the hard-hit region of Ercis and tells ABC...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 1 year ago
Emergency workers have rescued a 27-year-old woman alive from a collapsed building, three days after an earthquake killed more than 400 people in eastern Turkey. Gozde Bahar, an English teacher, was pulled out alive Wednesday in the town of Ercis,...
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Mail Online UK
| over 1 year ago
Teacher, 27, pulled alive from rubble 67 hours after Turkey earthquake as time is running out for survivors still trapped Gozde Bahar pulled out with several injuries and doctors had to resuscitate her 18-year-old student also found alive in...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| over 1 year ago
Turkey (AP) A teacher and a university student were rescued from ruined buildings on Wednesday, almost three days after a devastating earthquake struck eastern Turkey, but searchers said hopes of finding anyone else alive were diminishing. Excavators...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
EDT After the massive devastation in Turkey caused by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake, rescue operations are increasing in intensity and workers are racing to save as many people who are still alive and trapped in the rubble as possible.
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
EDT In a miraculous turn of events, rescuers rejoiced in Turkey after safely pulling out a 2-week-old baby girl from the earthquake rubble in Ercis. Baby Azra Karaduman was wrapped in her mother's arms when she was found. Her mother and grandmother...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Get summaries of the top business news from a global perspective Sample Baby Azra Karaduman was in the rubble for 48 hours since the earthquake. The baby's mother, Seniha, was crutching the infant in her arms when rescuers found them. Seniha and Azra'...
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Telegraph India
| over 1 year ago
Three generations of the same family first a baby, then her mother and finally her grandmother have been rescued from the rubble of Turkey's earthquake that killed at least 370 people. The three rescues occurred at two-hour intervals in the town of...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
An aftershock has been blamed for sparking a riot in a Turkish prison in the eastern city of Van, one of the places worst hit by Sunday's devastating earthquake. Eyewitnesses said flames and smoke billowed into the night sky and shots were heard. The...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
The latest US business and financial news as well as issues and events Sample Azra's father was not found. The infant was flown to a hospital in Ankara, more than 700 miles west of Ercis, while Semiha and Gulsaadet were taken to a local hospital. "...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| over 1 year ago
VAN, TurkeyPanicked residents in the earthquake stricken Turkish city of Van fled into the streets Tuesday evening as an aftershock shook the city center. Rescuers in Ercis, the hardest-hit city, and the provincial capital, Van, were racing to free...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
Three generations of family rescued 25 October 2011 Last updated at 12:00 ET The death toll from an earthquake in eastern Turkey has risen to 432 people, officials said, as rescue teams raced to find survivors beneath the rubble. At least 1,352...
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NY Daily News
| over 1 year ago
A 2-week-old baby girl in eastern Turkey was miraculously found alive in the rubble of an apartment building some 48 hours after it collapsed from a devastating earthquake that killed hundreds. Television footage of the dramatic rescue show an aid...
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Canada.com
| over 1 year ago
Turkey Rescuers plucked a two-week-old baby girl, her mother and grandmother from the rubble of Turkey's devastating earthquake Tuesday, sparking scenes of joy that electrified search efforts. Crowds cheered and applauded as 73-year-old Gulzade...
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Novinite
| over 1 year ago
Week Baby Girl Rescued from Rubble after 7.2 Earthquake in Turkey World October 25, 2011, Tuesday 68 views Rescue workers carry baby Azra, two weeks old, after they pulled it out from a collapsed building 47 hours after a powerful earthquake rocked...
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Al Jazeera
| over 1 year ago
Just as rescue teams were losing hope of finding any more survivors, a two-week-old baby was found alive, after being trapped under the rubble for 46 hours. Rescue workers then pulled out the baby's mother, Semiha Karaduman, and grandmother, Gulzade...
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New Zealand Infotech Weekly
| over 1 year ago
Rescuers have pulled a two-week-old baby girl alive from the arms of her mother buried under a collapsed building on as a search continued for survivors from a quake in eastern Turkey that killed at least 366 people and left thousands homeless. Hope...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
In Eastern Turkey, thousands of people have spent a second night outdoors in near freezing temperatures as rescuers continue the search for survivors from Sunday's powerful earthquake. Rescuers pulled several more survivors from the rubble in the...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
The Turkish rescue workers pulled the baby, named Azra, after hours of frantic digging. Earlier, a nine-year-old girl was rescued after she had spent over 30 hours under the rubble. In another report, And Mesut Ozan Yilmaz, 18, was found alive after...
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Leader Post Online
| over 1 year ago
Turkey Rescuers pulled a two-week-old baby girl alive from the arms of her mother, who had also survived but was still trapped in the rubble of their apartment on Tuesday, two days after a powerful earthquake in southeast Turkey. The mother was...
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Mail Online UK
| over 1 year ago
She was immediately rushed to a medical unit, emergency crew members cradling her fragile little body as they scrambled over the debris to get her to safety. The rescue gives hope to hundreds of citizens in both Ercis and Van that hundreds of people...
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The Courier-Mail
| over 1 year ago
A TWO-week-old baby has been pulled from the debris of an earthquake in eastern Turkey that left at least 366 people dead. The mother of the infant was also alive but buried in the wreckage of their home in the town of Ercis and rescuers were trying...
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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
Rescuers in Haiti have found two people alive ten days after a devastating earthquake hit the island state. A 22-year-old man and an 84-year-old woman were both pulled out from the rubble...As rescue teams battle to save trapped survivors, reports...
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International Herald Tribune
| over 1 year ago
Rescue teams were working round the clock for a third day to uncover survivors from more than 2,260 collapsed buildings in and around the city of Van, near the Iranian border, while more than 1,300 injured were being treated in nearby hospitals, the...
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Taiwan News
| over 1 year ago
Officials say the death toll in the powerful earthquake that hit eastern Turkey is now 366 with more than 1300 injured. However, the death toll is expected to rise as outlying areas are reached. The Disaster and Emergency Administration also says...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
People rescue two women trapped under debris in Van eastsern Turkey after a powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey, collapsing about 45 buildings in Van province, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011 according to the deputy Turkish prime minister.
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
Turkey Thousands of people have spent a second night outdoors in near-freezing conditions in eastern Turkey, afraid to return to their homes following a deadly earthquake that has been followed by hundreds of aftershocks. Searchers are picking...
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Pak Tribune
| over 1 year ago
Hopes faded Tuesday of finding more survivors as rescuers under floodlights scrabbled desperately through the rubble of an earthquake that killed at least 279 people in eastern Turkey. The rescue workers scrambled to find survivors as residents spent...
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Novinite
| over 1 year ago
Turkish officials have warned that the death toll is expected to rise further. Officials said 12,000 more tents would be delivered to the cities of Ercis and Van and also to nearby villages. Rescue teams with sniffer dogs continued through the night...
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Los Angeles Times
| over 1 year ago
Hasimoglu held vigil near a debris pile where workers drilled and hammered, searching for her daughter and other potential survivors of the earthquake that struck Turkey on Sunday afternoon. Earthquake in Turkey kills hundreds Similar scenes were...
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Taiwan News
| over 1 year ago
Rescues teams worked a second night to extract survivors trapped by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 272 people and wounded more than 1,000 in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey. The death toll from a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey rose...
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San Jose Mercury News
| over 1 year ago
Distraught Turkish families mourned outside a mosque or sought to identify loved ones among rows of bodies Monday as rescue workers scoured debris for survivors after a magnitude 7.2 quake that killed at least 279 people. Rescue teams with generator-...
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The Courier-Mail
| over 1 year ago
Turkey are diminishing as more bodies are recovered by rescuers. "We recovered his baby bed," said a 34-year-old man whose nine-month-old nephew was lying beneath piles of rubble. His desperately sad and pleading eyes were speaking volumes about his...
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Moreover Silicon Valley
| over 1 year ago
But persistent aftershocks are hampering search and rescue efforts for survivors. The magnitude 7.2 quake on Sunday destroyed buildings in a wide area. The Anatolia news agency reports 279 people are confirmed dead and about 1,300 others are wounded.
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The Christian Science Monitor
| over 1 year ago
Turkey is, in effect, caught in a geophysical vise between the Arabian plate, inching northward, and the Eurasian plate, the immovable object.
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Kuwait Times
| over 1 year ago
Rescuers pulled survivors from beneath mounds of collapsed buildings and searched for the missing on Monday after a major earthquake killed at least 264 people and wounded more than 1,000 in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey. Hundreds more were feared...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 1 year ago
Story continues below The confirmed death toll from the 7.2 magnitude earthquake, which struck around lunchtime on Sunday in Van province, stood at 272, according to Interior Minister Idris Naim Sener...It lasted 20 seconds," said Ercis resident...
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Daily News & Analysis
| over 1 year ago
Rescuers scrambled through the rubble in a desperate search today for survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 264 people in Turkey as residents fled the scenes of devastation. People living in eastern Van province issued cries for help on...
