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It's been just over a week since the devastating earthquakes which hit southern Turkey and north-western Syria, killing a least 37,000 people. The United Nations aid relief chief, Martin Griffiths, has acknowledged that the focus is now starting to switch from rescuing the few who remain buried, to caring for the millions who have survived. With so many people left homeless, surviving in cold conditions, there have been reports of tensions between Turks and Syrians in Gaziantep and other Turkish cities, where Syrian refugees are approximately one fifth of the total population. Syrian refugee Mohamed Othman was in Gaziantep with his wife and four children when the earthquake struck, he told Newsday. "The government is distributing food and water... there are some instances of tension but not from the aid distributor. There are some citizens, of course, who complain about the prioritising of refugees over them as citizens. We cannot generalise... but I faced some tensions in that regard. I faced some bleeding fights... but the police and ambulances are ready." (Pic: Temporary accommodation erected on a football pitch in Gaziantep, Turkey for quake survivors; Credit: Reuters)