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Hope still prevails as more survivors pulled out of earthquake rubble in Türkiye's southern region

The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 earthquakes, centered in Kahramanmaras, affected more than 13 million people across 10 provinces, also including Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Sanliurfa. Rescue teams have been continuing to find more survivors on the 6th day of the quakes.

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He added: "According to our observations, the incident (in Goksu) is nothing more than a simple mass movement triggered by the earthquake and that we see very often after tremors." The powerful twin earthquakes which hit southern Türkiye this week were three times stronger than the major 1999 Marmara earthquake in the country's northwest, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday.