In Hatay, a dog named Venus helped rescue teams save her owner's life, as well as her own. When rescue teams called made a call for survivors in the wreckage of a building, Venus' bark was what led them to her and her owner Duygu, 103 hours after the disaster struck.
Three-and-half-year-old Zeynep Ela Parlak was also pulled out of the rubble in Hatay, also 103 hours since the initial tremor.
Another earthquake victim, 41-year-old Ali Ibrahim, was rescued 104 hours after the region was hit by the tremors. Turkish soldiers rescued two Syrian-origin children, 15-year-old Ahmet and his eight-year-old brother Muhammet, on Thursday. On Friday, the same team saved the children's father after he spent over 100 hours under the rubble.
Another team that included rescuers from Spain, also saved a ten-year-old girl and her mother in Adiyaman province after 102 hours.
In Hatay province, teams from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality rescued eight-year-old Tanem Okur after 101 hours, along with her father Cem.
The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 earthquakes, centered in the Kahramanmaras province, affected more than 13 million people across 10 provinces, also including Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Sanliurfa.