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Hope of finding survivors is dwindling as the death toll tops 21,500 in Turkey and Syria.   Hikmet Yigitbas, 30, is rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building 101 hours after magnitude 7.8 and 7.6 earthquakes hit Turkey's Hatay [Sergen Sezgin/Anadolu Agency]Rescue workers are digging into the rubble for a fifth consecutive day to find more survivors of the devastating earthquakes that have killed tens of thousands of people and swept away entire cities in Turkey and Syria this week. Operations continued on Friday, but hopes of finding people alive are fading away. “This collapsed building has been a graveyard,” said Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar, reporting from Kahramanmaras, a Turkish city close to the epicentre of Monday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake. A second magnitude 7.6 quake followed a few hours later amid hundreds of aftershocks. “Dozens of people have been taken out [of the rubble], but all were dead,” Serdar said.  READ MORE: How much is politics hamperin...