The 6.8-magnitude quake shook Turkey’s Elazig province late Friday. Tremors were also felt in neighboring countries including Syria and Georgia.<\/p>\n
Death toll from the quake rose to 35 on Sunday with hundreds of others injured.<\/p>\n
The mother and daughter were trapped under the debris of their house in Mustafa Pasa neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Turkish gendarmes first rescued the daughter, Yusra Yildiz. Four hours later, the mother Ayse Yildiz was rescued.<\/p>\n
The rescue operation was caught on camera.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you hear me?\u201d one team member asked and Ayse Yildiz said: \u201cI do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease rescue me for God\u2019s sake,\u201d she whimpered, telling the rescuers about her child.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can see you,\u201d she told her rescuer.<\/p>\n
First, the child was rescued and carried in the arms of the rescuers.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour mother is coming,\u201d one of them said trying to comfort the baby. \u201cCome on, sweetheart.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A mother and her 2.5-year-old daughter were rescued 24 hours after a powerful earthquake hit eastern Turkey. The 6.8-magnitude quake shook Turkey’s Elazig province late Friday. Tremors were also felt in neighboring countries including Syria and Georgia. Death toll from the quake rose to 35 on Sunday with hundreds of others injured. The mother and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,895,174,194,173,1165],"tags":[8370,22456,78478],"class_list":["post-64791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-life","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","category-turkey-life","tag-6-0-earthquake","tag-turkey-elazig","tag-turkey-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}