Rescuers carry a girl to safety after pulling her out alive from a collapsed building following an earthquake in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on Monday. The confirmed death toll of the powerful earthquakes in Turkey and Syria soared past 15,000 on Thursday morning. Photo: Sertac Kayar/VCG

Residents retrieve a small child from the rubble of a collapsed building in the town of Jandaris in Syria, on Monday. Photo: Rami al Sayed/VCG

A man and a child receive treatment Monday at the Bab al-Hawa hospital following an earthquake in Syria’s Idlib province. Photo: Aaref Watad/VCG

A child picks up cages with birds that were pulled out from a collapsed building in Aleppo’s Afrin district in Syria, on Tuesday. Photo: Omer Alven/VCG

A child reads near rubble from a collapsed building in Afrin district. Photo: Ugur Yildirim/VCG

Turkish police special forces carry a child rescued alive from a collapsed building in Hatay on Tuesday, 37 hours after the earthquakes. Photo: Ercin Erturk/VCG

Rescuers hand over Yigit Cakmak, an 8-year-old survivor, to his uncle at the site of a collapsed building in Hatay, Turkey, on Wednesday. The child was trapped at the site for 52 hours. Photo: Burak Kara/VCG

Military personnel examine a 20-day-old baby in Hatay. The baby was reported to be in healthy condition after being pulled out from the wreckage with his mother 59 hours after the earthquake. Photo: Ibrahim Oner/VCG

Infants rescued in Turkey’s Kahramanmaras city are transferred to Ankara via the Turkish Presidential Plane on Wednesday. Photo: Mehmet Ali Ozcan/VCG