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Rescuers attend to Ferhat Tokay, who was pulled out alive from the earthquake rubble after being trapped for 108 hours.
Ferhat Tokay survived five days in the rubble by drinking rainwater that seeped in through the cracks and made himself comfortable by using his shoes as a pillow.
"I am hungry and thirsty," Tokay reportedly said when rescuers finally found him.
"He didn't even have a scratch on him!" the teen's uncle, Sahin Tokay, told Turkish television. "He was hungry on the first day, but the hunger pangs later disappeared."
Tokay's rescue gave the struggling nation a much-needed lift five days after a powerful quake levelled about 2,000 buildings in the eastern part of Turkey, killing at least 575 people and injuring more than 2,500 more.
Survivors watch as rescue workers carry the dead body of a victim of the an earthquake in Ercis on Thursday. (Dimitar Dilkoff/Getty)
The teenager was found after a rescue crew from Azerbaijan, which had already found and saved nine other people in the wrecked town of Ercis, told his family to go home because it was unlikely they'd find him alive.
Tokay was working in a shoe shop on the ground floor of a building when the 7.2 magnitude quake struck.
Trapped in the wreckage for 108 hours, Tokay could see a sliver of sky and hear - in the distance - the rescue teams and sniffer dogs, Turkish TV reported.
He was saved when a member of the rescue team, who was digging nearby, spotted his hand sticking out of the wreckage.
Tokay was taken to a nearby hospital and was listed in good condition.
