Foreign Ministry diplomatic sources said they were informed by relatives of the couple and rescue teams were immediately notified.
A Greek couple with dual citizenship is missing in the wreckage of an apartment building in Turkeyas diplomatic sources stated after the relevant reports were released.
As the diplomatic sources reported, the Greek Embassy in Ankara was informed, by relatives, that a Greek couple, with dual citizenship, is missing in the city of Antioch. As soon as it received the relevant information, the Greek Embassy informed the local authorities and the rescue teams. Efforts to locate them are ongoing.
Over 20,000 dead in Turkey and Syria – Thousands trapped
The death toll from the earthquakes in southern Turkey and Syria exceeded 20,000, according to the official reports released this evening.
According to Afad, Turkey’s disaster management agency, 17,134 people have been pulled dead from the rubble so far.
In Syria, the dead amount to 3,162.
In total, the victims so far are 20,296.
Without money, water and food thousands
Hundreds of thousands of people who have been left homeless are in despair due to the earthquakes in Turkey and Syriawhile the hopes of finding many survivors still in the ruins of the destroyed cities are limited.
The death toll from the earthquakes that occurred on Monday morning reached 20,000 in the two countries. In more detail, 16,546 people have lost their lives in Turkey and another 3,162 people have died in Syria, according to the latest announcements.
Many people in Turkey and Syria slept for a third night in a row in the open or in their cars amid freezing temperatures, as their homes have been destroyed or damaged and they themselves are afraid to enter them.
Hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless in the dead of winter. Many camped in makeshift camps in supermarket and mosque car parks, or simply by the side of the road, even in the rubble, in desperate need of food, water and heating.
At a petrol station near the town of Kemalpaşa, residents searched through cardboard boxes of donated clothes.
In its port Iskenderun (Alexandretta), Reuters reporters saw people sitting around roadside fires or in half-destroyed garages and warehouses. The only lights were the floodlights aimed at the cranes trying to remove debris.
According to authorities, about 6,500 buildings have collapsed in Turkey and countless others have been damaged in the quake-hit zone, home to about 13 million people.
Turkish disaster agency AFAD has designated meeting points for those who have been left homeless and want to leave the area. Over 28,000 people have so far been transferred to other areas, according to AFAD.
In Maras, residents had taken refuge inside a bank, putting a sheet over the window. Others had camped on the dividing island of a main road, where wrapped in blankets they warmed soup over the fire.
In Antakia (Antioch), the approximately 30 tents set up by the Turkish Red Crescent in a parking lot were overcrowded. Many spent the night in their cars. Few gas stations had fuel and those that still had stock had queues of cars for miles.
In the stricken Syrian city of Jadaris, Ibrahim Khalil Menkawin walked through the city’s rubble-strewn streets holding a folded white body bag. He says he lost seven members of his family, including his wife and two brothers.
“I’m keeping this sack for when they bring out my brother and my brother’s little son and their wives, and we can put them in sacks,” he said. “The situation is very bad. And there is no help.”
However, there is still some hope. In images broadcast from Turkey late yesterday, some people are still being rescued, including Abdulalim Muaini, who was pulled from his destroyed house in Hatay, where he had been since Monday next to his dead wife.
Rescue workers pulled an injured 60-year-old woman, Merla Nakir, from the rubble of an apartment building in the city of Malatya. 77 hours after the first earthquake, according to images broadcast live by the state-run TRT network today. Barefoot and with bruises on her face, rescuers wrapped the woman in a blanket and carried her to an ambulance.
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