ABC News' Ian Pannell reports from the Turkey earthquake zone. 'The reality is this is now less about rescue and more about recovery.'
Rescuers lead a rescue operation to save 25-year-old Ayse from the rubble of a collapsed building in Kahramanmaras, Feb. 10, 2023, five days after a 7,8-magnitude earthquake struck southeast Turkey.START HERE: Ian joins us from the road, I believe. Where are you right now, Ian?
PANNELL: Antakya in particular seems to be very badly hit. And it's a relatively poor but not terribly poor kind of town. It's medium sized. It's got a lot of hustle and bustle. It's near the border with Syria. It's a mixed population of Kurdish, Turkish [and] Arabic speaking. And it's a town that I know really well because throughout our coverage of the Syrian civil war, this was our base. I mean, it was really our home. We stayed there for weeks and weeks at a time.
PANNELL: Yeah, it varies a lot. There is a lot I think on the whole, a lot of it is very ad hoc. I mean, in some places it really is just extended family members getting hold of some kind of mechanical digger and using that and using their bare hands and whatever tools they can lay their hands on to try and clear some rubble away, to try and search for the bodies or search for survivors. The other places [are] a little more organized.
Ireland Latest News, Ireland Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Is Medicare and Social Security Funding in Jeopardy?At the State of the Union address, Biden claimed some Republicans have proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Are these programs at risk? See potential bias and similarities in coverage from abcnews, FoxNews, Newsweek:
Read more »
House Republicans Question Former Twitter Execs Over Suppression of Hunter Biden Laptop StoryThe House Oversight Committee questioned former Twitter executives in a hearing Wednesday about the platform's suppression of the nypost's Hunter Biden laptop story. See the potential biases and similarities in coverage from cnn, reuters and foxnews:
Read more »
ABC News Producer Choked to Death on Drunken Night Out With Wife: ReportDax Tejera, an ABC News producer, reportedly choked to death while intoxicated in New York City last December, contradicting a previous statement by his network that he’d suffered a heart attack.
Read more »
ABC News’ ‘squalid culture of sex’ continues to haunt Disney as ‘horned up’ office makes headlinesFormer high-level ABC News staffer, who says they witnessed rampant debauchery, isn’t surprised by a devastating feature about 'horned up' culture at the Disney-owned network.
Read more »
ABC News Producer Choked to Death on Drunken Night Out With WifeDax Tejera died of “asphyxia due to obstruction of airway by food bolus complicating acute alcohol intoxication,” the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner told The Daily Beast. The manner of death, the office said, was an accident.
Read more »
Surprising Cause Of Death Revealed For 37-Year-Old ABC News ProducerThe 'This Week' executive producer was dining out with his wife when he was struck by tragedy.
Read more »