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Quake Latest: Deaths Top 23,000; Politics Complicate Syrian Aid
Rescuers transport a survivor from a collapsed building in Hatay, Turkey, on Feb. 9.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the initial state response had been slowed by the fact that emergency personnel and their families were themselves trapped under collapsed buildings.