In a Friday phone call, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wished a speedy recovery to Aleyna Olmez, a young woman who was pulled alive from the debris of a collapsed building 248 hours after severe earthquakes hit southern Türkiye.
Rescuers on Thursday found Olmez, 17, alive under the rubble in the Dulkadiroglu district of the Kahramanmaras province. She was then taken to a hospital in the capital Ankara.
Expressing his happiness over Aleyna's good health, Erdogan said he will visit her as soon as he arrives in Ankara, according to the country's Communications Directorate.
More than 389,000 people have died in two strong earthquakes that jolted southern Türkiye last week, the country's disaster agency said.
The Feb. 6 magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 earthquakes, centered in the Kahramanmaras province, affected more than 13 million people across 11 provinces, including Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, Sanliurfa, and Elazig.
Several countries in the region, including Syria and Lebanon, also felt the strong tremors that struck Türkiye in the space of less than 10 hours.
Source: Anadolu Agency