Mustafa Avci

Mustafa Avci, 34, was reunited with his wife and newborn baby after being stranded in the ruins of a hospital for nearly 11 days. The private Academy Hospital in Antakya collapsed just minutes after the laboratory technician's wife and his premature daughter Almila had to go and buy biscuits from the canteen. He stayed trapped, afraid that his wife and baby would have been killed before he was finally rescued after 261 hours.

In the early hours of Feb. 6, Taha Erdem and his family were exhausted when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck their hometown of Adiyaman. His mother, father, younger brother, and sister were entombed in Taha, which was destroyed in ten seconds, leaving their apartment block in the ruins beneath a slew of rubble. In the mangled mess of concrete and twisted steel, he was alone and trapped, with waves of massive aftershocks transferring the detritus and squeezing his space. But instead of panic, Taha took out his phone and cut a remarkably calm and stoic video (left), in which he bid his family goodbye and expressed his sorrows, and expressed his deep gratitude. He was later pulled out alive - one of many inspiring stories of miraculous rescues and feats of survival (right)

After spending 296 hours buried under the rubble, the couple and their son were rescued from under their apartment building in Antakya, Hatay province's capital, and transferred to ambulances. Samir Muhammed Accar, 49, his wife Ragda, 40, and their 12-year-old son were identified as Samir Muhammed Accar, 49, according to the state-run Anadolu news service. The boy died in the hospital later that day. According to reports, two other children's bodies were also discovered in the ruins, quoting a member of a Kyrgyz rescue team. Following last week's earthquake, more than 45,000 people have been killed, and the toll is forecast to rise with around 264,000 apartments in Turkey destroyed and many more people are also missing in the country's worst modern disaster.