Rescuers lead a rescue operation to save 25-year-old Ayse from the rubble of a collapsed building in Kahramanmaras, Feb. 10, 2023, five days after a 7,8-magnitude earthquake struck southeast Turkey.START HERE: Ian joins us from the road, I believe. Where are you right now, Ian?
PANNELL: Antakya in particular seems to be very badly hit. And it's a relatively poor but not terribly poor kind of town. It's medium sized. It's got a lot of hustle and bustle. It's near the border with Syria. It's a mixed population of Kurdish, Turkish [and] Arabic speaking. And it's a town that I know really well because throughout our coverage of the Syrian civil war, this was our base. I mean, it was really our home. We stayed there for weeks and weeks at a time.
PANNELL: Yeah, it varies a lot. There is a lot I think on the whole, a lot of it is very ad hoc. I mean, in some places it really is just extended family members getting hold of some kind of mechanical digger and using that and using their bare hands and whatever tools they can lay their hands on to try and clear some rubble away, to try and search for the bodies or search for survivors. The other places [are] a little more organized.