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Reporting the earthquake

How Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Turkish and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic have been reporting the earthquake disaster in southern Turkey and northern Syria.

We hear from some of the language service journalists reporting on the catastrophic earthquakes that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria on Monday. Fundanur Γ–ztΓΌrk from Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Turkish travelled to Hatay, one of the worst hit cities, while Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic's Nisrine Hatoum was on holiday in Turkey at the time and quickly switched to reporting the disaster. Meanwhile her colleague Dina Waqqaf is Syrian, and plans to travel to the earthquake zone in northern Syria.

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(Photo: A man walks down the rubble of a collapsed building in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, close to the epicentre. Credit: ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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