The earthquake victims, who spent the first night in tents set up by AFAD hastily, on snow and icy ground, 5 days after the earthquake, condemned the situation and said: "We did not sleep in order not to freeze."
Citizens of Hatay, which has turned into a ghost town, continue to leave the city. While the citizens rebelled by saying, "The state that did not exist yesterday, does not exist today," HDP PM member Perihan Ağaoğlu emphasized that the city is intended to be depopulated.
Vice President Oktay said "The death toll in Maraş epicenter earthquakes rose to 24,617.
The aid truck sent by HDP from Izmir to Osmaniye was seized, and fire was opened on the people who condemned the situation. HDP MP Kemal Pekgöz said: “The police beat the people and took the truck to an unknown place.”
The contractor of the 250 flats Renaissance Residence, which was destroyed in the earthquake, was arrested.
The public condemned the police, who issued a traffic ticket to a citizen who parked his car on Gevran Street in Yenişehir district to leave the aid they collected. The police, who opened fire in the air, left the area upon the condemnation.
The death toll in Maraş epicenter earthquakes rose to 21,848.
Having given up hope on the state, the people of Adıyaman started to set up their tents together with the volunteers.
President Erdoğan announced that universities will be closed until the summer due to the earthquake and that they will switch to distance education.
Drawing attention to the fact that the structures in Turkey were not built in accordance with the Building Earthquake Code, Japanese earthquake expert Yoshinori Moriwaki said: "The buildings in Turkey collapse completely because they are built without permission, materials are stolen and not controlled."
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that the death toll in the earthquake rose to 21 thousand 43.
Volunteers and villagers who reached our agency from the Kalburcu village of Adıyaman reported that no aid, including AFAD, was sent to the Bulam and Çêlikan villages, and that the wolves ate the bodies found in the rubble.
The earthquake survivors who survived the destruction in the Altınım Neighborhood foothills of Amanos stated that their most urgent need is tents and water, and said that the aid that arrived in the neighborhood 4 days later was distributed to those who were AKP members.
Citizens who stayed outside in the freezing cold in the Sulumağara District of Îslahiye, where the fault line passes, called for tents, coal, stove and wood.
Kutsiye Çakmak, who lost her mother and sister in the Nergele region of Elbistan, said: "I said 'resist a little longer' to them who are under rubble, but the machine did not come to save them."