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Erdoğan pledges to preserve fabric of quake-hit historical provinces

"We cannot ignore structural changes to our (quake-hit) cities, where we've been living in brotherhood and which have been home to civilizations for thousands of years," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a press briefing on a visit to Adiyaman, one of the provinces badly hit by the earthquakes. Erdoğan also asked for earthquake victims' blessing over rescue delays while visiting the southern province of Adıyaman.

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At least 44,374 people have died due to those back-to-back earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6. Their epicenter was in Kahramanmaraş province, Malatya's southwestern neighbor, and struck nine other Turkish provinces -- Adana, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kilis, Osmaniye, and Şanlıurfa. More than 13 million people have been affected by the devastating quakes.