{"id":658645,"date":"2023-02-08T20:34:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=658645"},"modified":"2023-02-10T03:09:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T03:09:18","slug":"turkish-leader-acknowledges-problems-with-earthquake-relief-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/turkish-leader-acknowledges-problems-with-earthquake-relief-effort","title":{"rendered":"Cold, hunger, despair grip homeless as Turkey-Syria earthquake toll passes 19,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KAHRAMANMARAS\/ANTAKYA, Turkey (Reuters) &#8211; President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday admitted there were problems with his government&#8217;s initial response to a devastating earthquake in southern Turkey, amid anger from those left destitute and frustrated over the slow arrival of rescue teams. Erdogan, who contests an election in May, said on a visit to the disaster zone that operations were now working normally and promised no one would be left homeless, as the combined reported death toll across Turkey and neighbouring Syria rose past 12,000. Across a swathe of southern Turkey, people sought temporary shelter and food in freezing winter weather, and waited in anguish by piles of rubble where family and friends might still lie buried. Rescuers were still digging out some people alive, and finding others dead. But many Turks have complained of a lack of equipment, expertise and support to rescue those trapped &#8211; sometimes even as they could hear cries for help. &#8220;Where is the state? Where have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAHRAMANMARAS\/ANTAKYA, Turkey (Reuters) &#8211; President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday admitted there were problems with his government&#8217;s initial response to a devastating earthquake in southern Turkey, amid anger from those left<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,1,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}