Secretary of State Blinken tours Turkey quake devastation
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu sit in a helicopter for a tour of local earthquake-stricken areas Sunday.Mustafa Ozdimir helps his family as they collect goods from their collapsed shop in the city of Antakya Sunday.Some collapsed buildings in the city of Antakya on Sunday.A man walks past heavy machinery at the site of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras, southeastern Turkey, on Saturday.
“We continue these efforts every day with the hope of reaching a living brother or sister,” Savas said. “The most important thing right now is to get assistance to people who need it, to get them through the winter and to get them back on their feet. We’ll stick with it until we get the job done.” , and 105,794 others were so damaged they would need to be destroyed, according to Turkey’s Environment and Urbanization Ministry.for contractors allegedly involved in the shoddy construction of collapsed buildings that crushed their occupants.
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