Rescue workers and residents try to save people from collapsed buildings after a powerful earthquake rocked eastern <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO100100602011379" title="Istanbul (Turkey)" href="/topic/intl/turkey/istanbul-%28turkey%29-PLGEO100100602011379.topic">Turkey</a>. Prime Minister <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PEPLT00007719" title="Recep Tayyip Erdogan" href="/topic/politics/government/recep-tayyip-erdogan-PEPLT00007719.topic">Recep Tayyip Erdogan</a> was flying from Istanbul to the province of Van, the epicenter of the earthquake.

( Tolga Bozoglu / European Pressphoto Agency / October 24, 2011 )

Rescue workers and residents try to save people from collapsed buildings after a powerful earthquake rocked eastern Turkey. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was flying from Istanbul to the province of Van, the epicenter of the earthquake.

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