Reports about the rescue of earthquake victims who lay under the rubble for a whole week after the earthquake. earthquakes dated 6 February. But as the lucky breaks have been counted on the fingers of the last twenty-four hours, and the curtain on rescue operations is about to fall, eyes are turning to the huge challenges of the next day for Anchor And Damascus.

A 13-year-old boy was pulled out alive yesterday afternoon in Hatay province, a full 182 hours after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake destroyed his home. Four hours earlier, rescuers pulled a six-year-old girl alive in Antiyaman province, and almost at the same time, a 70-year-old woman saw sunlight again after spending 178 hours under the rubble.
Rescuers stop…

Speaking from Aleppo, Syria, where he was yesterday, UN Under-Secretary-General and Head of the Office of Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths said the rescue phase in the two countries is “coming to an end” and the focus is now on providing shelter, food and psychological support for survivors. . The UN representative stressed that it is the Syrians who “rightfully feel abandoned,” as the international community has not yet provided them with the necessary assistance.

Until yesterday, the number of confirmed earthquake deaths in the two countries exceeded 37,000. In Turkey, at last count, the death toll was 35,225, more than 80,000 people were hospitalized, and more than a million people were placed in makeshift camps. The government of Damascus, which controls most of Syria, has announced 3,581 deaths, while the UN has said more than 4,300 people have been killed in the rebel-held northwest of the country.

Along with the problems that the Erdogan government is designed to solve, there is a threat of a new wave of refugees in the country, which is already home to 4 million Syrian refugees. At a press conference, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu made it clear that his government would “under no circumstances allow” a new wave of refugees. According to the Financial Times, the earthquakes have become a test for relations between Turkish citizens and Syrian refugees. In previous years, the Turkish state has spent about $40 billion on housing, employment, care and education for Syrian refugees, but the initially generous feelings of the Turks began to turn into hostility due to the economic crisis. After earthquakes, there were cases of forced expulsion of refugees from their homes so that the Turks could accommodate them in their place.

According to a report from the Turkish Business Confederation, the cost of repairing the damage will be $84.1 billion. A Pakistani businessman based in the US visited the Turkish embassy in Washington and donated $30 million while insisting on anonymity.