The China Association for Disaster Prevention advises rescue teams not to travel to Turkey as the chances of survival are now minimal.
Austria’s armed forces suspended rescue operations in Turkey’s Hatay province “due to an increasingly difficult security situation”.
“The expected success of saving a life bears no reasonable relation to the safety risk,” a defense ministry spox said, without giving details.
“The expected success of saving a life bears no reasonable relation to the safety risk,” a defense ministry spox said, without giving details.
On Saturday, the sixth day after the twin 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude tremblors, local media devoted coverage to rescue teams still saving lives, including an infant and a family of five.
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More rescue teams from China are arriving in Turkey despite the advice.
Rescuers pulled a survivor from earthquake rubble on Sunday, six days after one of the worst natural disasters to hit parts of Syria and Turkey, as the death toll exceeded 28,000 and looked set to rise further.
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In Turkey's southeastern province of Hatay, a Romanian rescue team carried a 35-year-old man named Mustafa down a pile of debris from a building about 149 hours after the quake.
On Saturday, Gizem, a rescue worker from the southeastern province of Sanliurfa, said she had seen looters in the city of Antakya. "We cannot intervene much, as most of the looters carry knives."
Erdogan commented on the general security situation on Saturday, noting that a state of emergency had been declared and that there had been some looting.
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Rescue teams from China are startled by the poor quality of construction of the collapsed buildings in Turkey.
“The biggest cause of deaths, however, may have been shoddy building standards, corruption and bad policymaking. All are part of Turkey’s economic model, which is powered by construction and rent-seeking.”
In Osmaniye, as elsewhere, most of the collapsed buildings date back to before the 1999 earthquake. But scores of new ones, ostensibly constructed according to new standards, have also come down or suffered irreparable damage.
Amid an already difficult situation, right-wing populists and nationalists have been agitating against refugees and other minorities.
Other internet users argue that Turkey is not even able to provide for its own citizens and thus the refugees should leave.
Other internet users argue that Turkey is not even able to provide for its own citizens and thus the refugees should leave.
Two brothers, alleged looters, were arrested in Altinözü, Hatay at the weekend. One of them died in custody. His father, who had to identify the body the next day, told the CHD that his son had broken ribs and a broken nose, and that he had died of a blood clot.
In response to a DW inquiry, a spokesman for Germany's Agency for Technical Relief (THW) said that, for their part, German rescue teams in Hatay had stayed mostly in their base camp for safety reasons, only leaving for specific rescue missions.
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