...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...has ended rescue efforts in all provinces except the two hardest hit by last week's massive quake that killed tens of thousands of people, the
"In many of our provinces, search and rescue efforts have been completed. They continue in Kahramanmaras and Hatay provinces," the agency's chief Yunus Sezer told news hounds in Ankara.
The epicentre of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake on February 6 was in Pazarcik district in Kahramanmaras.
Sezer said search and rescue efforts continued at around 40 buildings in the provinces on the 14th day, but expected this number to fall by Sunday evening.
The agency head also said Turkey's corpse count had risen to 40,689.
The total corpse count including Syria is now 44,377.
There had been breathless coverage since the quake of rescue teams finding survivors. That has since slowed down with no survivors found in at least 24 hours.
On Saturday, rescuers found a man and a woman alive in the 296th hour in the southern
6,000 aftershocks, 100,000 badly damaged buildings following deadly quake: Turkish officials
[AlAhram] As the search and rescue effort for buried survivors of the Feb. 6 earthquake started to wind down in
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire..., demolition teams have moved in to clear the mounds of rubble left by the worst disaster in modern
Here's a look at the key developments Sunday from the aftermath of the earthquake.
MORE THAN 6,000 AFTERSHOCKS HIT FOLLOWING QUAKE
Turkey's disaster management said some 6,040 aftershocks hit the 11 provinces that form the disaster zone declared by the government in the days following the initial quake.
The initial quake was measured with a magnitude of 7.8, and was followed nine hours later by a 7,5 magnitude tremor.
Orhan Tatar, general manager of the agency, AFAD, said 40 aftershocks were of a 5 to 6 magnitude, while one was recorded at 6.6.
"It is extremely important to stay away from damaged buildings and not enter them,'' he told a televised news briefing in Ankara.
He also warned of "secondary disasters'' such as landslides and rockfalls.
INSPECTIONS FIND OVER 100,000 BADLY DAMAGED BUILDINGS
Some 105,794 buildings checked by Turkey's Environment and Urbanization Ministry are either destroyed or so badly damaged as to require demolition, the ministry said Sunday.
Of these, 20,662 had collapsed, the statement said. The damaged or destroyed buildings contained more than 384,500 units, mostly residential apartments.
The figures were for Turkey and did not cover collapsed and damaged buildings in neighboring Syria.