63 days in the earthquake zone! ‘A hand was playing in the wreckage’

CNN TÜRK Special News Chief Fulya Öztürk received a phone call from her relatives in Adana just after 04:17 on the night of February 6th. The voice on the end of the phone was telling Fulya with fear, panic and anxiety that there was a huge earthquake.

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A few minutes later, Turkey learned that the epicenter of the earthquake was Kahramanmaraş and that it destroyed 11 cities in the region. Fulya didn’t even think about it, she immediately set off towards the earthquake zone. He was the first journalist to go there, and he told us what was going on every day for 63 days.

Fulya Öztürk, the symbolic name of the earthquake, talked about her experiences in the broadcast of CNN TÜRK.

We arrived in Adıyaman at 10 o’clock that day. I received a message from our family friend in Hatay. While the earthquake was still shaking, the news came to me. Brother Salih, what do you say, «Sister, we are devastated, call Adana». I got up because there was an earthquake. Since my family is in Adana, I wanted to call them, but the phones did not pick up.

I called Aykut, «There was a very bad earthquake» Later I reached my family. When we found out that they were good, we set off immediately. We thought about how to go. The tracks were closed. We somehow got on the plane that the authorized names were going to take off. We didn’t know where we were going until the plane door closed. Either to Antep or to Adana. Finally, they said that we will land in Adıyaman.

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30 PEOPLE STUCK IN A TRUCK WITH OUR CAMERA

No vehicles, no communication. There was a pickup truck there. You can’t rent a car, I said bro, I beg you, take me to the center. We had a few other friends there. Let’s go to the center. We got maybe 30 people stuck in a small pickup truck with our cameras. We dispersed to the centre. Then there was an earthquake at 7.6 noon. Buildings were destroyed. On the one hand, I’m on your mind. On the one hand, I could not reach my family. Minutes later, it shook so much that we barely escaped with our lives.

We caught the earthquake in the car in Adıyaman. Fulya said run away. We got out of the car and ran. A building collapsed right there. I want to give news from the region, on the other hand, I want to reach my family. We traveled everywhere in Adıyaman, we wanted to reach you. We went there to see if we could broadcast from there, the base of the center of Maraş.

We got a small signal inside the car on the Maraş road. There was Semiha Şahin. I am in Adıyaman but I want to go to Maraş. We cannot broadcast. Semiha also said, «We can’t hear from Adıyaman.»

Mars was very bad. People were trying to go somewhere. I found a signal again in Maraş.

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SAVING LIVES

I stumbled upon a street by accident. There came a man, I said, «There might be someone over there.» A hand was playing behind the curtain. We learned that he was Can at the age of 14. Are you ok? Move with your hand. I didn’t want him to talk either. We are not looking for anyone. We went to AFAD. We sent a team there. We pulled Can out of the wreckage after 4-5 hours, now he is in Konya. We talked to Can. There was no news from his mother.