Rescuers have pulled out a man alive from the rubble of a collapsed building four days after a powerful earthquake hit eastern Turkey, killing 532 people.

The death toll from the devastating earthquake in eastern Turkey has risen to 523, officials say.

TURKEY struggled to provide shelter yesterday to tens of thousands left homeless by an earthquake that killed nearly 500, and rescue teams began taking painful decisions to call off searches for those buried alive.

Turkey’s prime minister has accused shoddy construction firms of murder after so many buildings collapsed in the country’s deadly earthquake.

An 18-year-old university student was pulled out injured, but alive from the ruins of an apartment building early today, 61 hours after the devastating Turkey earthquake.

A TWO-WEEK-OLD girl has been rescued from the rubble of the Turkish earthquake after being trapped for two days.

Rescue workers have pulled three members of the same family from the rubble of Turkey's earthquake which has killed at least 370 people.

A two-week-old baby girl has been pulled alive from the rubble of an apartment building that collapsed in the Turkish earthquake.

Thousands of people in eastern Turkey have spent a second night outdoors in near-freezing conditions, afraid to return to their homes following a deadly earthquake that has been followed by hundreds of aftershocks.

FOUR people were pulled alive from the rubble yesterday when one managed to call for help on his mobile phone after a 7.2-magnitude quake levelled buildings and killed 279 people in eastern Turkey.

Dozens of people remained trapped in mounds of concrete, twisted steel and debris today after the earthquake that struck two Turkish cities.

The death toll in a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey has risen to at least 217, the country’s interior minister said.

AT least 85 people have been killed with hundreds more feared dead after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey.

A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey today, collapsing dozens of buildings into piles of twisted steel and chunks of concrete. Desperate survivors dug into the rubble with their bare hands, trying to rescue the trapped and injured.

A powerful quake has killed 30 people and injured 150 others in the eastern town of Ercis, according to state television.

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 struck eastern Turkey today, collapsing some buildings and causing a number of deaths according to officials.