STORY: IHH said it dispatched a team of 1,100 search and rescue workers after a huge earthquake claimed thousands of lives across a swathe of Turkey and northwest Syria.

More than 1,200 buildings were destroyed by the quake in Hatay province alone and where the city of Iskenderun is located.

Turkey's Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said hundreds have been killed in Hatay, which borders Syria.