The father insisted his children were rescued first before he was brought out by emergency teams to cheers, providing a rare glimmer of hope in the face of the overwhelming devastation from Monday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake.
In the hard-hit town of Nurdagi, in Gaziantep province, rescuers first recovered mother and daughter Havva and Fatmagul Aslan, who had been trapped beneath the wreckage of their home.
They later reached the father, Hasan Aslan, but he insisted his other daughter, Zeynep, and son Saltik Bugra be saved first.Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerEmergency workers have moved to using thermal cameras to help identify signs of life - an indication of the weakness of those still trapped.Read more:
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