The Turkish police arrest dozens of provocative content in connection with the earthquake

The Turkish police announced on Wednesday that they arrested 78 people for "provocative" contributions on social media in connection with the devastating earthquakes last week.

The Turkish Directorate General for Security said that the 78 arrests belonged to a group of 613 people who allegedly posted “provocative” content without mentioning examples.

In October, the Turkish Parliament passed a law that allows the state to have every user of social media detained for the spread of disinformation for up to three years, a step that alerted human rights groups.

It was not immediately clear whether the insulting social media content spread disinformation about the quake or simply criticized the reaction of the Turkish government.

The management added that 46 websites had been closed because they had operated "phishing fraud", with which attempts were made to steal donations for earthquake victims.

It came when Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish President, promised to rebuild the southern Turkey, and insisted that the rescue campaigns were continued despite the dwindling hopes of survivors.

In conversation with the Turkish cabinet, Mr. Erdogan said, who was criticized because of his slow response to the fatal earthquakes last week: "We will continue our work until we have removed the last citizen who has remained under the collapsed buildings."

"We will rebuild all houses and jobs destroyed or uninhabitably made and hand them over to the lawful owners," added Erdogan.

The rescue work continued on Wednesday, including almost miraculous cases in which survivors lived in cavities for a whole week under their collapsed houses.

The number of fatalities through the earthquake, which has hit both the southern Turkey and the northwest of Syria, is already 40,000, but will probably continue to rise in the coming days.

Among the newly discovered survivors was a 42-year-old woman from Kahramanmaras, one of the worst affected areas that had been included for more than 222 hours.

video recordings showed rescue workers that the woman named Melike Imamoglu brewed on a stretcher to an ambulance.

in northwestern Syria, which was also devastated by the earthquake, however, this week played more moving scenes.

The rescue team of the white helmets published a video of two of their workers who cried quietly over the body of a child who had been pulled out of ruins, but then succumbed to their injuries while it was taken to the hospital.

Approaching messages also came from the province of Antakya, where the body of Cemal Kütahya, the captain of the Turkish national handball team, was found next to his five -year -old son.

A saved brothers told brothers told their own urine and ate protein powder to survive.

"I felt very comfortable. I knew I would be saved. I just prayed," said Abdulbaki Yeninar, 21, the Turkish news agency Ihlas.

Abdulbaki was saved on Tuesday with Muhammed Enes Yeninar (17) from a collapsed house in the province of Kahramanmara.

UN official said that the rescue campaigns in both countries gradually take place, whereby the focus is on rescuing the corpses of the victims.

Ayman Safadi, the Jordan Foreign Minister, travels to Damascus today to show the victims "solidarity" before taking a similar visit to Turkey.

Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator, is a global paria due to its litany of war crimes during the country's decades.

It is the first attendance of a Jordan Foreign Minister since the outbreak of the war, and the Assad regime uses the earthquake as a means of pressure to achieve sanctions from the West.