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• Bodies wrapped in blankets buried in mass graves in Adiyaman 

  Dead bodies removed from the rubble in Adiyaman hit by the massive earthquakes on Monday have been buried in mass graves for the last three days.
• HDP MP Bülbül in Adıyaman: Failure to reach trapped people on time led to a great tragedy 

  “Destruction is followed by psychological collapse, the state is abandoning the people,” said HDP MP Kemal Bülbül, who is in the earthquake-hit province of Adıyaman.
• MEDYA-DER joins search and rescue efforts in Pazarcik 

  Şeyhmus Karadağ, Co-Chair of the Association for Assistance and Solidarity with Families that Lost Their Relatives in the Cradle of Civilizations (MEDYA-DER), joined the search and rescue efforts in Pazarcik, saying: “We will continue to help our people."
• Ferhat Pala: We need more things for children in Pazarcik 

  Ferhat Pala, one of the HDP Van youth council members involved in helping the earthquake victims in Pazarcik, called on everyone to help.
• Prisoners in Kırıklar jail send winter clothes in solidarity with earthquake victims 

  The detainees in Kırıklar No. 2 F Type Prison sent their winter clothes in solidarity with the earthquake victims.
• KESK: The state was completely absent from the beginning of this catastrophe  

  KESK co-chair Mehmet Bozgeyik said that "the state was completely absent from the beginning of this catastrophe and collapsed."
• Autonomous Administration Education Board representatives hold meetings in Germany 

  Northern and Eastern Syria Autonomous Administration Education Board representatives continue their meetings in Germany.
• Number of victims continues to increase 

  AFAD announced that the number of victims of the earthquakes that struck last Monday increased to 18,342.
• Solidarity meeting in Lorient for earthquake victims  

  A meeting was held in Lorient, France, in solidarity with earthquake victims.
• HDP Europe Crisis Coordination Desk set up  

  A spokesperson from HDP was named to coordinate cooperation with the earthquake zone from Europe.
• Internationalists conclude Long March 

  Internationalists marching from Switzerland to France for the freedom of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan have concluded their protest on the fourth day after the postponement of the Strasbourg rally planned for Saturday due to earthquake.
• Activists in front of UN call for solidarity with earthquake survivors 

  Activists carrying out a vigil for the freedom of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan in front of the UN in Geneva commemorated the victims of Monday’s earthquakes and called for solidarity with survivors.
• HDP Crisis Coordination: The government is trapped under the rubble 

  "Our task today is to strengthen social solidarity networks against the profit-driven economy and ruthless order," said the HDP, which has set up a crisis team and is deploying 2000 volunteers in the earthquake zone.
• Earthquake survivors left to their fate in Elbistan 

  Earthquake survivors have been left to their fate in Elbistan, devastated by Monday’s earthquakes. Search and rescue efforts in the district started two days after the disaster. There is neither water, electricity, nor tents for the survivors.
• State of emergency enters into force as death toll reaches 16,170 in Turkey 

  The parliament of Turkey has approved a three-month state of emergency in 10 provinces worst-affected by two devastating earthquakes on Monday that claimed thousands of lives.
• KONGRA-GEL: We should not leave our people alone, helpless and hopeless 

  Calling for solidarity with the earthquake victims, KONGRA-GEL said: “We should lend support to our people affected by the earthquakes in these difficult and painful days.”
• Long March activists: Turkish colonialism responsible for consequences of earthquake 

  In the long march of the Kurdish youth movement for the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan, the earthquake in Kurdistan, Turkey and Syria is a central theme.
• KCDK-E: Strasbourg demonstration postponed due to earthquake 

  The KCDK-E has postponed the demonstration for the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan planned for Saturday in Strasbourg to 8 April due to the earthquake disaster in Turkey and Syria.
• Hatay residents: Alevi neighborhoods receive no aid 

  Residents of Küçükdalyan and Subaşı neighbourhoods in Hatay province reacted to the government which has delivered no aid for days, saying that the government discriminates against them since they are Alevi neighbourhoods.
• Labor and Freedom Alliance: We will overcome this disaster together 

  The Labor and Freedom Alliance said: "This regime has left our people to die. We will overcome this disaster together. The people's defense of life cannot be prevented."
• Activists of the Long March call for support for earthquake victims 

  The Long March demanding the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan resumed in Germany on its fourth day.
• Earthquake victims in Antep: No one has come to our aid 

  Even two days after the earthquakes in ten provinces in Turkey, whose epicentres were the districts of Pazarcik and Elbistan in the province of Maraş, there are settlements that no government aid has reached yet.
• Günay: The government left people to die 

  HDP Party Spokeswoman Ebru Günay said that the AKP-MHP government has left earthquake victims to die and called for solidarity.
• Twitter restricted in Turkey in the wake of devastating earthquakes 

  Real-time network data shows Twitter has been restricted in Turkey on Wednesday. The filtering is applied on major internet providers and comes as the public come to rely on the service in the aftermath of deadly earthquakes.
• No rescue effort introduced in most of Adiyaman yet 

  Although 72 hours have passed since Monday’s devastating earthquake and Turkish state officials keep saying that they have reached every spot affected, there is still no rescue effort to rescue people in most of Adiyaman.