23 million people may have been affected by the strong earthquakes in Turkey and Syria on Tuesday night. More than 6,000 people are dead, tens of thousands injured and the death toll is expected to rise dramatically.
The TV4 News team is on site in Diyarbakir, in the Kurdish part of Turkey. There is still hope that one of the children, or one of the adults believed to be buried under all the rubble, will miraculously be found alive.
There is also great sadness and anger at the tragedy that befell them.
– Five of my nieces and nephews are there! My sister-in-law is there! Where is the help?!, asks Mehmet, a resident of Diyarbakir
– When similar disasters happen in other countries, they get rid of the racial masses in a day! We are all Turkish citizens! This is discrimination!
See the feature from a Diyarbakir in ruins in the player above.