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Red balloons typically "represent joy, love," he said. But in Antakya, after the earthquake, "this is the first time a balloon has made us cry."
The family had relocated to the central region of Konya from the southeastern Turkish city of Nurdagi, which was badly hit by the Feb.6 quake, to stay with relatives.
Anadolu news agency reported that Blinken and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu left Incirlik Air Base near Adana by helicopter for nearby Hatay province, one of the areas hardest hit by the Feb.6 quake..
"In many of our provinces, search and rescue efforts have been completed. They continue in Kahramanmaras and Hatay provinces," the agency's chief Yunus Sezer told reporters in Ankara.
"This girl means so much to us because there's no-one left of her family besides this baby. She'll be a memory for me, for her aunt and for all of our relatives in the village of her mother and father," Sawadi said.
The Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Field Hospital in Reyhanlı district of Hatay Province in Turkey has begun receiving the injured and those affected by the quake that struck the country recently.
These planes carried 1,375 tonnes of food, medical supplies and tents to shelter the earthquake affected people in Turkey and Syria.
Rescuers worked through the night to rescue people clinging to life beneath the rubble eight days after Turkey's worst earthquake in modern history but hopes of finding many more survivors were fading on Wednesday.
Talal Najm said seven of her 13-member family had died. The bodies of her father, two brothers and four nieces and nephews remained on the ground in front of the collapsed building.
For the past two days, Ibrahim has been doggedly tearing at the rubble with his hands as he searches for family members who were buried when Monday's deadly earthquake struck both Syria and Turkey.