The Deadly Earthquake in Turkey and Syria

<p>On Monday, a giant 7.8-magnitude earthquake and an aftershock almost as big shook the earth in southern Turkey. The quakes sent ripples through neighboring countries, but the area along the Syrian-Turkish border was hit particularly hard.</p><p>Thousands of people have been killed, and dozens of cities have been gutted.</p><p>We hear from witnesses on the ground about what happened when the devastating tremors hit.</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/ben-hubbard?smid=pc-thedaily">Ben Hubbard</a>, the Istanbul bureau chief for The New York Times.</p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>The initial earthquake struck before dawn, shattering lives in a region already<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/world/middleeast/turkey-syria-earthquake.html"> rocked by war, a refugee crisis and economic distress</a>.</li><li>In northwestern Syria, nearly<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/world/middleeast/syrian-humanitarian-crisis-earthquake.html"> three million people displaced by the country’s civil war</a> were already living in precarious conditions.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p>