Turkey Earthquake: The 7.7 magnitude earthquake that occurred in Turkey-Syria on Monday (February 6) has taken the lives of more than 15,000 people so far. Even after such a gruesome accident, the spirit of the people of Turkey has not diminished towards life. For more than 72 hours, people buried under the debris are telling the same story during the rescue.
Turkey’s Defense Ministry has shared a video in this matter. According to the shared video, a person who was rescued from the debris was smoking a cigarette when the rescue team pulled him out of the debris. Despite the refusal of the rescue workers, he did not stop smoking his cigarette. This video of him is now going viral on social media.
Turkey’s Ministry of Defense said that the rescue team of the Engineering Battalion of the Army Command safely rescued our citizen Sonar Tuetekin on Thursday morning at Adiyaman Umut Apartment.
3’üncü Ordu Komutanlığımızın İstihkâm Tabur unsurları, bu sabah Adıyaman Umut Apartment’naki Soner Tuğtekin isimli citizensımızı sağ salim kurtardı.#BirlikZamanı pic.twitter.com/jRG13C2mUo
— TC Milli Savunma Ministry (@tcsavunma) February 8, 2023
More than 15000 people have died in Turkey
According to reports, the earthquake in these two countries of the Middle East killed a total of 15,000 people. At the same time, according to an estimate, it is believed that a total of more than 60 thousand people would have been injured here.
According to the last official data received from the governments of both countries, 12,391 people died in this earthquake in Turkey while 62,914 were injured. At the same time, the death toll in Syria has increased to 3,486, while the number of injured here is said to be 5,247.
