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• No buildings left standing in a village of Malatya 

  “Neither state officials nor AFAD teams have come to help us,” says a resident of the Çığlık village in Malatya.
• HDP MP Kurtulan: There is no state but popular solidarity in Pazarcık 

  HDP MP Fatma Kurtulan said that there was no state but solidarity in the Pazarcik district of Kahramanmaras province, the epicentre of the magnitude 7.7 earthquake on Monday.
• Some injured children from earthquake areas are missing 

  One of the missing children is Mukaddes Erva Aktaş, who was pulled from the rubble in a district of Maraş.
• Damaged buildings evacuated in Amed 

  Heavily damaged houses are being evacuated in Amed as part of the earthquake damage assessment.
• HDP deputy Özsoy criticizes the government’s response in the aftermath of earthquake 

  HDP Amed Deputy Hişyar Özsoy criticized the construction policies of the Turkish state and its response to the earthquakes, saying that “They kill people with thermal cameras, but they do not rescue survivors with the same thermal cameras.”
• Gendarmerie tortures a person to death in Hatay 

  Ahmet Güreşçi and Sabri Güreşçi, who were detained in a raid on their house in Hatay Büyükburç District, were tortured at the Gendarmerie Station. As a result of the torture, Ahmet Güreşçi lost his life.
• AFAD prevents people from carrying out rescue work in many places 

  HDP Van MP Muazzez Orhan said that many people lost their lives because there was no timely intervention, and because AFAD prevented others from working.
• HDP MP Sarısaç: The state does not have any policy to keep people alive  

  HDP Van MP Murat Sarısaç said that the state did not have any policy to keep people alive after the earthquake and emphasized that the prevention of aid to the regions was based on the policy of exterminating Kurds and Alevis.
• Solidarity night for earthquake victims in Sydney 

  A solidarity night for earthquake victims was organized in Sydney by the Democratic Kurdish Community Center (DKTM) Youth Commission, following a call from the Kurdish humanitarian aid organization Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê.
• The state is trying to prevent the incoming aid trucks 

  TOP Earthquake Coordination Center said the state is preventing trucks from carrying aid.
• Basque actress calls for donations for earthquake victims through Heyva Sor 

  Basque actress Itziar Ituño calls for solidarity with the Kurdish people facing challenges after two devastating earthquakes on February 6.
• HDP visits earthquake victims in Antep: No aid reached the people from Rojava 

  Visiting the earthquake victims in Antep, HDP MPs said people from Rojava could not access any aid and 100 people were seeking shelter in one tent.
• Donation campaign in London for earthquake victims in Turkey and Kurdistan  

  Kurdish and Turkish revolutionary organisations collect donations for earthquake-hit regions at train stations, stadiums, streets and central locations across London.
• Risk of epidemic diseases increases in Hatay 

  On the seventh day of the earthquake in Hatay, some parts of the city started to heavily smell dead. People’s anger towards the state has also increased.
• Calgary Shepard deputy calls on Canadian people to help earthquake victims 

  Tom Kmiec, a deputy from the Conservative Party, for Calgary Shepard, spoke about the earthquake in the Canadian Parliament.
• Activists in Rome protest 15 February 1999 International Conspiracy 

  Kurds living in Italy and their friends protested the International Conspiracy that led to the capture of Abdullah Öcalan with a march in Rome.
• Ministry of Environment says 7,584 buildings collapsed as a result of earthquake 

  The Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change announced that 7,584 buildings were destroyed and 12,617 were damaged in the earthquake that affected 10 provinces.
• Türk: There is no such thing as a state today 

  Ahmet Türk, who lost 17 relatives in the earthquake that hit Adiyaman (Semsûr), said in a statement after examining the wreckage areas: "There is no such thing as a state today."
• Buldan and Kılıçdaroğlu in Amed: We want to heal the wounds together 

  CHP and HDP leaders met in Amed to assess the situation after the earthquake. "Forget political differences for a moment. Times of crisis are also times of solidarity, which heals and unites," they said.
• ‘Not the state, but revolutionaries and patriots reach out to earthquake survivors’ 

  Unionist Osman Ünel stated that official institutions started coming to Antakya only after the third day of the earthquake.
• Turkey opens border crossing with Armenia after 30 years 

  For 30 years, the borders between Armenia and Turkey were closed. In order to secure aid for the survivors of the earthquake in Turkey, the borders have now been opened.
• Unnamed source: More than 150,000 people died in the earthquake 

  According to the information given by a source from the AKP, the number of people who lost their lives in the earthquake is more than 150,000. Turkish Interior Minister Soylu allegedly instructed governors to remove the debris together with the dead.
• Former CHP leader Deniz Baykal passed away 

  Deniz Baykal, the former chair of the CHP, passed away.
• Scandal in Osmaniye State Hospital 

  People who died in the hospital in Osmaniye, one of the places that suffered great destruction in the earthquake that hit Turkey and Kurdistan on 6 February, are put in a black bag and thrown into the corridors.
• Civil Society Solidarity in Armutlu 

  The earthquake victims were left to their fate in the neighbourhood of Armutlu in the Defne district of Hatay, where the state teams arrived 4 days later.