People remove the wreckage of a collapsed building following an earthquake in Sindirgi, northwest Turkey, August 10, 2025. BAHADIR DEMIRCEVIREN / AP
A 6.1-magnitude quake struck Sindirgi in western Turkey on Sunday, August 10, the Turkish disaster management agency (AFAD) reported. The earthquake was felt across several cities in western Turkey, including Istanbul and the tourist hotspot of Izmir. Some 319 first responders were deployed to the affected zone, AFAD said.
An elderly woman died shortly after being pulled out alive from the debris of a collapsed building in Sindirgi, the epicenter of the quake, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya told reporters. Another 29 people had been injured, but not seriously, he added. Several people were pulled alive from the rubble of the three-storey building, where six people were living. The person who died had also been buried under the rubble there before being freed.
Earlier, Mayor Serkan Sak had told Turkish private channel NTV: "Four were rescued from the rubble." Efforts to extract two others were ongoing, he added.
Yerlikaya said a total of 16 buildings collapsed in the region – most of them derelict and unused. Two mosque minarets also tumbled down, he said. None of the injured were in serious condition, the minister added.
