A couple of farmers from Adiyaman province survived the earthquake with minor scratches, but their house and barn were completely destroyed. Many of their animals die. When Birgül Tuncay discovers that one of her cows is still alive under the rubble, she climbs to the animal and takes care of it for days - with success.
Birgül Tuncay never gave up on her buried cow. For eleven days, the farmer fed her trapped cow named Birican in a village in south-eastern Turkey. Now helpers have freed the animal, as reported by the broadcaster CNN Türk.
"Today I am very happy, thank God," said farmer Tuncay in a video. "I love my animals like my children." The sale of her milk will ensure the survival of the family, the woman told the state news agency Anadolu. Videos showed the woman climbing into the rubble with hay to get to the cow over the past few days.
The Tuncay couple from the village of Dardagan in the province of Adiyaman survived the earthquake with minor scratches. Her animals, however, were hit harder. Only two of her cows reportedly survived. Her 15 goats and 30 chickens were killed under the rubble of her two-storey house. The farmers' barn was also destroyed. The cow, freed after three hours of rescue work, is now receiving medical care.
Meanwhile, civil protection Afad expects strong aftershocks with a magnitude of more than 5 in the coming days in the earthquake area. There is an aftershock in the region about every four minutes, Afad risk mitigation director Orhan Tatar told the state-run Anadolu Agency. So far there have been more than 4700 aftershocks. The number of confirmed deaths in Turkey and Syria is still rising. On Friday it was almost 44,000. Tens of thousands were also injured, and thousands are still missing. Millions are affected by the effects of the violent earthquakes. More than 84,000 buildings in Turkey have collapsed or been badly damaged, according to the Minister of Urban Planning, Murat Kurum.
