++NIGHT SHOTS++ 1. People warming themselves by a fire 2. Close up of people warming themselves 3. Two girls waiting waiting by their tent, still in its bag 4. Close up of the girls by the tent 5. SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) Esma Karadag, homeless girl: "They just gave us a tent now but we have not been able to erect it. My siblings are feeling cold." 6. Various of a family leaving a tent 7. Mid shot of child 8. Close up of child''s face 9. Mother holding her baby in a blanket 10. Close up of mother''s face 11. Close up baby''s feeding bottle 12. Men and boys erecting a tent 13. SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) Erol Inanli, Red Crescent Regional Representative: "The minute we received the news our emergency centres were alerted. Our teams arrived as soon as they could. We have 330 tents, 1000 blankets and 3000 portable rations. So far 700 beds have been distributed. We have twenty-five team members currently in the region." 14. Various of tents STORYLINE: Hundreds of earthquake survivors huddled in aid tents and around bonfires on Monday in eastern Turkey, seeking relief from the winter cold after a strong temblor knocked down stone and mud-brick houses in five villages, killing 51 people. The damage appeared worst in the Kurdish village of Okcular, which was almost razed. At least 15 of the village''s 900 residents were killed, the Elazig provincial governor''s office said, and the air was thick with dust from crumpled homes and barns. The pre-dawn earthquake caught many residents as they slept, shaking the area''s poorly made buildings into piles of rubble. Panicked survivors fled into the narrow streets of the village which is perched on a hill in front of snow-covered mountains, with some people climbing out of windows to escape. The Kandilli seismology centre said the 6.0-magnitude quake hit at 4:32 a.m. (0232 GMT) near the village of Basyurt in a remote, sparsely populated area of Elazig province. The region is 340 miles (550 kilometres) east of Ankara, the capital. The US Geological Survey listed the quake at 5.9 magnitude. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Kandilli Observatory''s director, Mustafa Erdik, urged residents not to enter any damaged homes, warning they could topple from aftershocks that Erdik said could last for days. More than 100 aftershocks measuring up to 5.5 magnitude shook the region on Monday alone. In addition to the deaths, 34 people were being treated for injuries, Turkey''s crisis centre said. Fifteen people were killed in the nearby village of Yukari Demirci, Governor Muammer Erol said, while four each were killed in the villages of Kayalik and Gocmezler and 10 others died after being taken to a hospital in the town of Kovancilar. Most of the dead were immediately buried in accordance with Muslim tradition. A few funerals had to be put off until Tuesday. The temblor also knocked down barns, killing many farm animals. A half-dozen dead cows were seen partially buried near one collapsed home. The Turkish Red Crescent set up tents and villagers laid plastic sheeting to shelter them from the cold and dirt. "Our teams arrived as soon as they could. We have 330 tents, 1000 blankets and 3000 portable rations," Erol Inanli, the Red Crescent''s regional representative said. The government said it rushed ambulance helicopters, prefabricated homes and mobile kitchens into the stricken area. "They just gave us a tent now but we have not been able to erect it. My siblings are feeling cold," one homeless girl, Esma Karadag, said. Erdogan blamed the region''s mud-brick buildings for the many deaths and said the government housing agency would build quake-proof homes in the area. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/18932e286529f6757f0fc91a332c18d9 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

• published: 24 Jul 2015
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