Sefa Demirci, who lost nine relatives in the earthquake, spoke to Sky News from a Turkish community centre in Leicester. Latest:
Updates from John Sparks and Yousra Elbagir and Kay Burley in Kahramanmaras and Siobhan Robbins in Adiyaman. Live reporting by Bhvishya PatelMourners in Washington DC paid their respects to the lives lost in the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria yesterday evening.
"There is obviously a huge amount of need and everyone is trying to do their best to get what is needed to the people who need it most," she added.'Nightmare scenario' facing Syria as nearly five and a half million people may be left homeless The Middle East & North Africa country cluster manager for the British Red Cross, Jeremy Smith, said:"In Syria, this is very much a worst-case scenario for us. This is a nightmare scenario."Search and rescue efforts are continuing after earthquakes rocked Turkey and Syria this week.
Cuba has sent its"armies of white coats" to disaster sites and disease outbreaks around the world since its 1959 leftist revolution. Here are some of the latest pictures of the resources and teams from Greece, to Colombia and New York sending their help and support to earthquake survivors. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has faced criticism and public anger over his government's slow response to the disaster.
He told Sky News:"The sheer level of destruction that has happened we've seen images of streets where in the same vicinity some buildings have been knocked down while others have remained intact and that has raised doubts in the way in which enforcement of very strict codes of building standards have been implemented.
He told Sky News:"In some places most of the medical facilities have been destroyed and in other places they've been damaged to the extent where they simply cannot be used. UK Med is working with the British government to help deliver their emergency response including helping to build a field hospital to treat those critically injured.
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