Bojcrut said, “You recover a body from tons of rubble. Families are waiting with hope…they want a burial ceremony. They want a grave.”
According to Islamic tradition, the dead should be buried as soon as possible.
In one city cemetery, thousands of new graves far outnumbered the number before the quake, underscoring the scale of the disaster.
The earthquake killed more than 46,000 people in Turkey and Syria and the death toll is expected to rise even higher.
Bozkurt said that while he was working with his bulldozer, a father, warming himself over a fire by the ruins of his former home, asked him to find his daughter.
“She told us, ‘Please find a piece of her so I know where her grave is’. It’s really sad.”