Government officials in Turkey are trying to quell fears of more quakes as rescue and recovery operations continue and people have limited access to housing, goods and services.
in the country and in neighboring Syria, was paralyzed Monday by widespread destruction — and by panic, survivors told NBC News.
"I can say thousands of people under buildings and waiting to be rescued," Taman said."Now, in the cities, people cannot find gasoline, they cannot take money from the banks. They cannot find anything from the shops. Everybody is trying to find warm places to spend the night." Istanbul is over 500 miles northwest of where the quake struck and 25-year-old Sezer cem Tamer, who lives there, said he didn't even feel it.
Tugay Khamran, a 25-year-old university student who lives in Izmir, which is about 500 miles west of Gaziantep, was just one of the thousands of young Turks who flooded into the worst-hit areas Monday to help with the rescues. Khamran said he was still en route when a second quake struck a few miles north of Kahramanmaraş. When it was over, a city of 1.6 million inhabitants was in ruins, he said.
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