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'A crane, for God's sake': Inside the struggles of Turkey's earthquake response

Cranes remove debris from demolished buildings following the deadly earthquake in Maras, Turkey, February 11, 2023. REUTERS/Emilie Madi

Kevser said she could hear her two sons trapped beneath the rubble of their collapsed apartment building in the Turkish city of Antakya but for two days she was unable to find an emergency response leader to order their rescue.

"Everyone's saying they're not in charge. We can't find who's in charge," she said on Tuesday last week, standing on a downtown street where at least a dozen other buildings had collapsed. "I've been begging and begging for just one crane to lift the concrete."

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