President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited areas in southeaster Turkey hit hard by a powerful earthquake on Monday and described it as “the disaster of the century.” The estimated death toll has climbed to more than 20,000 people. The World’s Durrie Bouscaren is in the Turkish city of Gaziantep and she speaks with host Marco Werman
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