In pictures: Syria-Turkey quake one week on
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White Helmets aid worker finds earthquake victims' belongings in the rubble [Getty]
Martin Griffiths, UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, visits the neighbourhoods by the earthquake in the city of Aleppo [Getty]
Rescue teams continue their search and rescue operations for earthquake survivors at an excavation site [Getty]
Bombing of a camp for the displaced in Idlib [Getty]
Earthquake survivors shelter in a mosque [Getty]
Before burial, people perform funeral prayer for their relatives who died in the earthquake [Getty]
People queue in Samandag, Turkey for food following the earthquake [Getty]
Relatives warm up around a fire in front of rubble of collapsed buildings as rescue teams continue to search for victims and survivors [Getty]
Over 35,000 people have been killed in the devastating earthquake across Turkey and Syria, as aid organisations warn it could take over a generation to recover.
Reports of rescues are coming less often as the time since the quake reaches the limits of the human body's ability to survive without water, especially in sub-freezing temperatures.
The magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 quakes struck nine hours apart in southeastern Turkey and northern Syria on 6 February.
Relief efforts in affected areas across Syria have been hampered by a civil war that has splintered the country and divided regional and global powers.
However, the rescue phase is "coming to a close" with urgency now switching to shelter, food, schooling and psychosocial care, the UN aid chief said during a visit to Syria on Monday.
It is estimated that as many as 23 million people across Turkey and Syria have been affected by the tragedy.
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