The Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) says search and rescue operations have ended in most provinces nearly two weeks after this month’s devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
“The death toll due to the earthquakes rose to 40,642, and the work of searching and rescue for people stuck under the debris has ended in most of the provinces,” Yunis Sezar, head of AFAD, said in a presser on Saturday.
“We believe we will end the search and rescue operations by tomorrow night,” he added.
Survivors are being forced to come to terms with the fact that there is likely no one left alive under the rubble
But there are still an unknown number of people missing.

Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith reports from Antakya, in southeastern Turkey.

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