Boran Kubat, a 20-year-old student from Istanbul, was visiting family in Malatya when the deadly earthquake violently rocked the border between the two countries on Feb.
“I had my phone with me, so I thought if I shared a video on social media, my friends could see it and they could reach us,” he told Anadolu.
“Friends, we are stuck under the earthquake,” Yayla, who was in the crumbled remains of a dark room, said in Turkish.
Kagan Sarikaya, a Turkish political scientist, created a map to track the confirmed locations of victims still awaiting help in Turkey’s Hatay province.
Turkey’s president has called the overwhelming devastation caused by the earthquake “the disaster of the century.” Entire neighbourhoods of high-rise buildings have been reduced to twisted metal, crumbled concrete and exposed wires.
Temperatures remain below freezing across the expansive region and many people have no place to shelter.
Turkey’s disaster management agency said more than 20,000 people had been confirmed killed so far in Turkey, with nearly 75,000 injured.