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Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, has acknowledged that 48,000 people have died and over 115,000 have been injured as a result of the deadly earthquakes in Turkey's southeast.
"The death toll has reached 48,000 and the number of injured has exceeded 115,000," Erdogan declared in a televised address to the country from the Samandag region of Hatay province.
Two earthquakes of magnitudes 7.7 and 7.6 struck Turkey's southeast on February 6 at intervals of nine hours.
Following this, there were thousands of underground shocks that were felt in 11 provinces of Turkey as well as in the neighboring nations, including Syria.
