
Ercis, Turkey — Azeri and Turkish rescuers pull 13-year-old Ferhat Tokay from the rubble of a collapsed building five days after Sunday's 7.2-magnitude quake hit eastern Turkey. Officials say the death toll in the earthquake in eastern Turkey has gone up to 570.
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Ercis, Turkey — A Turkish earthquake survivor carries loaves of bread after receiving food aid in Ercis. The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday that it was launching an emergency airlift to take tents, blankets and other shelter supplies to thousands of people left homeless by the earthquake in eastern Turkey.
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Ercis, Turkey — An earthquake survivor climbs down a ladder from the roof of a damaged building in the eastern Turkish town of Ercis. The death toll in Sunday's earthquake, which hit eastern Turkey, rose to 570 on Friday.
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Van, Turkey — An earthquake survivor walks in front of a damaged mosque, left, which had lost its minaret during an earthquake, in the eastern Turkish town of Ercis.
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Erics, Turkey — Rescue workers carry 2-week-old Azra Karaduman to safety after she was pulled from a collapsed building almost two full days after the powerful earthquake rocked eastern Turkey. Hours later, the girl's mother was also rescued from the same building.
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Erics, Turkey — Relatives of victims grieve in front of a collapsed building.
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Erics, Turkey — One collapsed building leans perilously against another as a rescue worker looks for survivors.
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Erics, Turkey — An aerial view taken from a helicopter shows a tent village for earthquake victims set up on a soccer field.
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Erics, Turkey — A man learns that a family member has been found dead in a collapsed building.
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Erics, Turkey — Rescue workers make their way through a damaged building.
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Erics, Turkey — Rescue workers rest and eat amid collapsed building as the search for survivors continued.
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Erics, Turkey — An aerial view taken from a helicopter shows the destruction in Erics.
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Erics, Turkey — An army of rescue workers prepares to extricate young mother Semiha Karaduman from the rubble of the same apartment building where her 2-week-old daughter, Azra, was found alive hours before.
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Erics, Turkey — An Azeri rescue worker clears an opening in the debris to look for possible survivors trapped under a collapsed building where seven people were believed to be buried.
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Ercis, Turkey — A survivor rescued from the rubble is carried to safety.
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Ercis, Turkey — Women mourn at a cemetery for relatives killed in the earthquake.
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Ercis, Turkey — A young victim is strapped to a stretcher to be transported.
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Ercis, Turkey — Rescue workers try to save people from collapsed buildings after a powerful earthquake rocked eastern Turkey.
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Ercis, Turkey — A man sobs while holding the body of his daughter before her burial.
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Ercis, Turkey — Relatives wail in grief as victims are removed from a collapsed building.
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Ercis, Turkey — Men huddle together sharing a fire, blankets and a couch in the street after the earthquake left them homeless.
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Van, Turkey — Heavy equipment is used to try to reach survivors trapped in a collapsed building.
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Ercis, Turkey — A free-for-all erupts after a Red Crescent truck arrived with tents to provide temporary shelter for displaced residents.
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Ercis, Turkey — A man looks for family members in the debris of a collapsed building.
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Ercis, Turkey — Men sit in the rubble of what two days earlier was their home.
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Van, Turkey — A multistory building was reduced to a mountain of rubble in the Turkish village of Tabanli after a powerful earthquake struck.
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Van, Turkey — Rescue workers and residents try to save people from collapsed buildings after a powerful earthquake rocked eastern Turkey. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was flying from Istanbul to the province of Van, the epicenter of the earthquake.
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VAN, TURKEY — Residents take shelter in the streets after the magnitude 7.2 quake struck Van, in eastern Turkey.
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