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People who have come to live here from Turkey and Syria have been watching the pictures in horror. They've been desperately trying to contact their relatives and friends to check they are alright. One of those is Belfast business man Rahmi Akyol who's been living in Northern Ireland for 27 years after leaving the city of Diyarbaki in southern Turkey. He says while immediate family members are safe, some of his extended family are unaccounted for. He believes the final death toll will be in the tens of thousands because the cities are so densely populated. He's now trying to organise transportation for his family out of the city. And he's been speaking to our reporter Helen Jones:
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