Earthquake survivors last words to his wife 'I wonder if we should make a coffee'

Moments before the earthquake struck on Monday last week, Ufuk Bayraktar and his wife Ela were reminiscing about their life together. 

Living on the ground floor of the Derya apartment in Hatay, Ufuk and his wife were both awake when the earthquake struck in the early hours of the morning.

Ufuk's last words to his wife were: "I wonder if we should make a coffee."

Moments later, he said, "I could hear her scream."

"After that, I felt the building collapse. I never lost my consciousness, but my sense of time was gone. I thought I was taken out after about sixteen hours, but I was rescued at the 25th hour. I wished to die painlessly when I was under the rubble. I couldn't believe my ears when the call for help came,'' he said. 

Buried under the rubble, Ufuk was rescued after 25 hours by search and rescue teams alongside the lifeless body of his wife Ela.

Ufuk was taken into surgery in the Turkish city of Adana, suffering several fractures in his body, and is now in a stable condition.