Quake toll surpasses 11,000; Turkey Halts Trading After $35-Bn Wipeout

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited southern Turkey on Wednesday to see first-hand the destruction wrought by a massive earthquake as the confirmed death toll from the quake rose to more than 11,000 (at the time of going to press) people in both countries.

The tally was expected to rise as hundreds of collapsed buildings in many cities have become tombs for people who had been asleep in the homes when the quake hit in the early morning.

Amid calls for the Turkish government to send more help to the disaster zone, President Erdoğan toured a “tent city” in Kahramanmaras where people forced