Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) shaking hands with US Secretary of Antony J. Blinken, Feb. 20, 2023. (Photo: Presidency of the Republic of Turkey)
Rescue teams search for people as cranes remove debris from destroyed buildings in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. (Photo: Hussein Malla/ AP)
A rescuer stands in front of rubble near the site where Aleyna Olmez, 17, was rescued from a collapsed building, in Kahramanmaras on Feb. 16, 2023. (Photo: Ozan Kose/ AFP)
A Black Hawk helicopter lands next to an Apache helicopter at a U.S. military base at an undisclosed location in Eastern Syria, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019 (Photo: AP)
Rescuers search for victims and survivors in the rubble of buildings, a day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's southeast, in Diyarbakir on February 7, 2023. (Photo: AFP)
Families wait through the rubble of buildings in kahramanmaras, the quake's epicentre, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's southeast, Feb. 7, 2023. (Photo: Ozan Kose/AFP)
An aerial view shows collapsed buildings following last week's earthquake in Syria's rebel-held village of Atarib, in the northwestern Aleppo province, on February 14, 2023. (Photo: Aaref Watad/ AFP)
This aerial view shows collapsed buildings during the ongoing rescue operation in Kahramanmaras, the epicentre of the first 7.8-magnitude earthquake seven days ago, in southeastern Turkey, on Feb. 13, 2023. (Photo: Ozan Kose: AFP)