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At least 17,000 people are known to have died in southern Turkey and northern Syria following Monday's earthquakes. Without shelter, water, fuel or electricity, the World Health Organization fears many survivors could yet lose their lives.

Aid workers and rescuers continue to work tirelessly to try to reach people and save survivors, but it is not easy with so many routes and infrastructure having been damaged.

Beril Huri's father was trapped under rubble in Turkey's Hatay Province for 48 hours before he was rescued - but he later died. Beril remembers her father while appealing for international aid. She tells Newshour, "There is an immediate need for fuel, food, water, electricity and tents. Health services are unable to cope and medical support is not enough because hospitals are ruined... and logistics is impossible due to damaged roads and airports. That's why we also cannot go there, for my dad's funeral."

(Picture: Emergency personnel search for survivors at the site of a collapsed building following a major earthquake in Hatay, Turkey. Credit: ERDEM SAHIN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock.)

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