Nearly two weeks after the devastating earthquake in the Turkish-Syrian border area, rescue operations in almost all affected provinces in Turkey have been halted. The search for possible survivors continues in just about 40 buildings in Kahramanmaras and Hatay provinces, Turkish civil protection chief Yunus Sezer said on Sunday.
The epicenter of the February 6 earthquake was in Kahramanmaras. More than 105,000 buildings were destroyed or damaged in Turkey alone, and at least 44,000 people lost their lives in Syria and Turkey. Thousands of people are still missing. Given the low temperatures and the passage of time, their chances of survival are very slim. However, a rescue team managed to pull two more people alive from the rubble in Turkey on Saturday.