Rescue workers pull 70-year-old man from Turkey earthquake rubble

A strong earthquake struck on Friday in the Aegean Sea between the Turkish coast and the Greek island of Samos (Emrah Gurel/AP)

A 70-year-old man has been rescued from a collapsed building in western Turkey some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing at least 51 and injuring more than 900 people.

Ahmet Citim was pulled out from the rubble and was taken to hospital, with health minister Fahrettin Koca tweeting that the man said: “I never lost my hope.”