I told the family, if we die, let's die together: Poll of Aslan, one of Turkey's earthquake survivors

It was 4 in the morning, when Erdem was sleeping at his home in Gaziantep, southeast Turkey. It was rocked in sleep, in one of the most powerful earthquakes that occurred today, in the history of earthquakes in Turkey.

I've never experienced anything like this since 40 years of my life”, he says.r BBC, translate Periscope.

And we were shaking, and this was repeated three times, it was a huge shake of”, it went on.

The “People were running to the cars to get rid of the buildings that were falling apart. I can imagine, there is no one now in Gaziantep who can stay at his” house, Erdem says.

Over 60 miles [100 km] away, in Adana, Niluffer Aslan and his family could die as a result of the catastrophic earthquake that was strongly heard on the fifth floor of his residence.

I've never seen anything like this in my life. We got out of there in a minute, maybe”, he says of the BBC, translates Periscope.

[I told my family] There is an earthquake, at least if we die, let us all die together in one place. That's the only thing that came to mind”, he confessed away.

When the earthquake stopped, Aslan came out.

I couldn't imagine what my eyes were seeing. Buildings in front of us, ground levelled”, he says. /The Periscopi/