Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that the country's death toll from the massive earthquake and aftershocks had reached 35,418, AP reported.
Erdoğan, speaking after a five-hour Cabinet meeting at the headquarters of Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, said that 47,000 buildings had been either destroyed or so badly damaged that they would require
demolition, per AP"We will continue our work until we get our last citizen out of the destroyed buildings," Erdogan said, per AP.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed on Tuesday to temporarily allow earthquake aid to pass through
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