The residents of Urfa, who were affected by the earthquake, said. "The bakeries in the city were closed and the municipalities did not fulfill their responsibilities. We had a problem with shelter despite the cold weather.
Evaluating the painful picture that emerged in the Maraş-centered earthquake as a "massacre", Academic Savaş Karabulut said: "The death toll is much higher the ones announced and that the real responsible for what happened was the government."
Süleyman Bin Khalid student dormitory, one of the shelters opened by the Ministry of Youth and Sports for the victims of the earthquake, turned out to be damaged in the earthquake.
WHO announced that it has declared a "Level 3 Emergency" due to the consecutive earthquakes in Pazarcık.
Citizens of Adıyaman, which was most affected by the earthquake, marched to the Adıyaman Governor's Office to protest the authorities who did not carry out search and rescue efforts. Officials were removed from the governor's office under police protection.
Musa Köse, who was pulled out of the rubble in Îslahiye, which was half destroyed in the earthquake, said that the message "We are alive" was received from those who were in the same rubble, but there was no search and rescue efforts.
Stating that Turkey is an earthquake country, JMO İzmir Branch President Koray Önalan said: "There have been warnings about the East Anatolian fault line for years. If precautions were taken, it would not have been so devastating."
14 people from 4 families, who took shelter in a one-story shop in İslahiye district, half of which were destroyed in the earthquake, said: "We are looking for food and water, but we cannot find it."
Citizens waiting for their relatives to be removed in front of the wreckage in Adıyaman said: “A city was destroyed. We have 80-90 thousand deaths in the center. There is no government, no electricity, no water, no natural gas, no food."
Stating that it is necessary to ask where the 88 billion 240 million TL obtained from earthquake taxes and the 4.5 trillion budget to be used for 2023 in Turkey spent, Employment Specialist Sinan Ok said that these resources were spent on war, rent and the Palace.
While the death toll continues to rise in two major earthquakes in Maraş, thousands of people are still under the rubble. The people, who spent the night on the streets in the earthquake area reported by our reporters, condemned the government and the authorities that they could not get support from.
The State of Emergency decision taken by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was published in the Official Gazette.
An investigation was launched against journalists Merdan Yanardağ and Enver Aysever on the grounds of their statements about the earthquake.
Although it has been a long time since the earthquake in Sergolan district, for the first time a team started search and rescue work in a heavily damaged structure.
Following the earthquake from the State Information Coordination Center, President Erdoğan announced that a State of Emergency decision was taken for the earthquake zone.