Türkiye's earthquake unleashed devastation in İskenderun. But amid grief and anger, there is also rare hope

The search for survivors in the devastating quake that struck Türkiye and Syria continues.  (ABC News: Haidarr Jones)

Turkish authorities left retired prison officer Suleyman Samar for dead in the crushed concrete and twisted metal of his collapsed apartment block, before his unwitting saviour rolled in on an excavator.

Mr Samar was buried alive for 88 hours near the body of his mother in the ruins of their second-floor flat, in the devastated port city of İskenderun in the Hatay Province of south-east Türkiye.