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16/2/2023, 20:23
 



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Pain, grief and anger among the rubble: Euronews reports on the Turkey & Syria earthquakes

By Euronews Brussels bureau

In Antakya, the cemeteries have run out of room to bury the dead.

Mass graves are appearing across the city in Southern Turkey, triggering an effort to collect DNA samples from the unidentified bodies so that their families can one day give them a proper send-off.

Those who were fortunate enough to survive the 7.8-magnitude earthquake are now scrambling to make it to the next day as the absolute devastation turns consumes daily life.

“People are basically sleeping rough in their cars and in tents. But there aren’t enough tents to go around. Many are sleeping out in the open and it gets quite cold at night,” Euronews correspondent Anelise Borges reports from Antakya, one of the worst-hit cities by the earthquake.

“Authorities here are well aware that this is very much a race against time to both bury the dead but also to keep the living alive.”

The scale of the tragedy is practically unfathomable: at the time of writing, more than 36,000 people have died in Turkey, while the number of wounded exceeds 100,000 and is expected to keep rising.

In neighbouring Syria, over 5,800 people have lost their lives, compounding a humanitarian crisis that has been raging since the start of a bloody civil war back in 2011.

Ten days after the earthquakes hit and forever changed both countries, rescue efforts continue in a race against time, driven by the hope of finding survivors among the rubble. 

Anelise saw first-hand the endeavours of these workers, many of them volunteers with no previous experience. One day, she recalls, the team asked everyone to stay quiet. They had heard some noises coming through the debris – a possible sign of life – and were desperate to know the exact location. The engines of cars and diggers were turned off, and family members were called in to guide rescuers through the building plan. 

“But the miracle many hoped for wasn’t meant to happen tonight,” Anelise said. The hint of life turned out to be a false alarm that wasted precious hours of work.

“The pain that is already immense grew just a little larger, as if the wave of hate and destruction submerging this country didn’t want to recede.”

Stories like this one, ridden with despair and sorrow, have fuelled the anger of Turks, who, shocked by the ease with which hundreds of buildings collapsed, demand answers from the government and decry the slow pace of relief operations.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the prime target of the criticism, has admitted “shortcomings” in the response but also said that no other government could have done it better. The catastrophe has brought his centralised system, often defined as a one-man rule, under renewed scrutiny, giving the opposition a powerful argument to mount a presidential challenge in this year’s elections.

The country, however, is not thinking about politics.

“Here in the city of Adana, most hospitals are operating at capacity and many family members are literally camping out on site, waiting for their loved ones to recover. Many of them are survivors themselves, still haunted by what they went through last week,” Anelise tells us in her latest report.

There, she met with Halil Ibrahim Gokpinar, who told her how he spent 20 minutes trying to get her wife Cigdemn and child out of the rubble in the city of Kahramanmaras, using his own bare hands.

“Her lips were purple. It was clear she was lacking oxygen and blood. She was not responding to my voice,” Halil said, fighting back tears.

“When we got to the hospital it is not possible to describe: it was horror,” he went on. “We took my wife inside. Forget about beds, chairs, stretchers. There was no room to put her in because of the dead bodies and patients. I had to push people aside and put her on the floor.”

Halil’s wife underwent surgery on Tuesday and is still in the ICU, offering a modest glimmer of hope in the midst of breathtaking desolation.

HELP OUT If you wish to donate to aid efforts in Turkey and Syria, we recommend you to check out established international organisations such as the World Health Programme, UNICEF or the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.



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THE FRONTLINE The battle for Bakhmut rages on as Russia launches round-the-clock attacks to force the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops. Ahead of a counteroffensive, Kyiv is pleading with NATO to step up the delivery of advanced weapons but allies are struggling to ramp up production. Meanwhile, the US has told its citizens to get out of Russia immediately due to the risk of arbitrary arrest and harassment. And our colleagues at the Cube look into what’s behind the anti-Zelenskyy graffiti popping up all across Europe.

‘NOT ALWAYS EASY’ Keeping the political unity among the 27 member states intact against Russia’s aggression in Ukraine “has not always been easy but so far we have managed,” Josep Borrell admitted in an interview with Euronews. “We have done more than what was thought possible,” he told us. The foreign policy chief defended the effectiveness of EU sanctions, calling them a “slow-acting but certain poison.”

FRESH RAFT Speaking of sanctions on Russia, the European Commission has unveiled its proposal for a 10th package, expected to be adopted before the war turns one year old. In a first, Brussels plans to target seven entities linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. Separately, EU finance ministers decided to add Russia to the bloc’s blacklist of tax havens. This is why.

UPHILL STRUGGLE In a bid to raise extra funds for Ukraine’s reconstruction, the EU wants to invest the frozen assets owned by the Russian Central Bank, which are protected under international law. But, as Alice Tidey reports, the plans face an uphill struggle to become a bulletproof solution, as legal experts warn the unprecedented idea is “deeply problematic” and “legally dodgy.” 






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‘IDIOTS’ Outrage erupted this week after Olivér Várhelyi, the European Commissioner for enlargement, was caught on hot mic referring to MEPs as “idiots” during a plenary session. “How many idiots are still left?” Várhelyi was heard saying in Hungarian, his mother tongue. The Commissioner later claimed the incident had been a “misunderstanding” taken out of context, an explanation that failed to appease the mounting calls for resignation.

SHOCK EXIT Scotland’s longest-serving first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has shocked the UK by announcing her resignation. Notably, her decision was not directly linked to any electoral defeat or personal scandal, leaving political observers scrambling to figure out the real reasons. David Mac Dougall offers his own take on what might have led Sturgeon to step down.

THINKING TWICE Economic uncertainty, lack of job security and changing social attitudes have coalesced to send Poland’s birth rate plunging. The rate has decreased by 40% over the last 30 years, with women now having an average of 1.4 children on average. In the latest episode of Euronews Witness, Julián Gómez meets the Polish women who would rather think twice.

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BALLOON WARS All eyes are on the incredible saga playing out in the skies of North America after four mysterious flying objects were shot down in the span of just eight days. The White House has stressed no alien was involved in the incidents. With speculation on their origin and purpose running rampant, Euronews Next compiles everything that we know about the UFOs.
 



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ΙT'S IN THE NUMBERS

The Spanish parliament has approved a pioneering law that grants the right of three-day “menstrual” leave of absence, with the possibility of extending it to five days, for those with disabling periods, which can cause cramps, nausea and vomiting. The bill is part of a broader package on sexual and reproductive rights that includes allowing anyone 16 and over to get an abortion or change the gender on their ID card.



EDITOR'S CHOICE

Kyiv wants sanctions on Russia’s nuclear industry. But for the EU, the stakes are just too high.



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“Think about it: Russia has created the threat of a radiation catastrophe in Europe! And the Russian nuclear industry is still free from global sanctions. Is this normal? I do not think so.” This was the impassioned plea delivered last week by President Volodymr Zelenskyy during his much-awaited visit to Brussels. The call for action, however, gained no traction as EU leaders opted to promise other things. Across nearly ten packages of sanctions, Russia’s nuclear industry has remained conspicuously untouched. The reasons are both technical and political: as of today, five member states operate 19 Russian-made nuclear reactors, which only Moscow can service and maintain. This reliance has led to a status quo where Russia’s nuclear energy is a no-go zone for sanctions, Jorge Liboreiro writes, even after state-owned company Rosatom took over the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.







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