Up the road, four members of a family climbed over another mound of debris in an attempt to save belongings. “We just want something to eat,” said Father Bilal Bolukbasi. They formed a human chain, carrying whatever they could find from the rubble to the sidewalk, where bags of frozen meat, boxes of crushed tomatoes […]
Aslihan Cavasoglu has spent the past six days grieving for lost relatives by camping in a small building in a park in the Turkish city of Antakya with his family. All she wants to do now is leave her earthquake-ravaged hometown. “I lost my two sisters, brother and mother in the earthquake. Most of my […]
Volunteers struggling to find at least one survivor in Turkey’s quake-hit city of Antakya said on Saturday that devastation and sanitation problems were adding to their difficult task. One resident, who was searching for a companion buried in a collapsed building, said he had seen looting in the first days before leaving the city after […]
“We are waiting with hope, God willing, we will get good news,” he said in Diyarbakir, a city of 1.2 million people. Adhikendra. For Hasan Sansar, who fled with his family into the street when the quake was felt, the lack of connectivity was ominous. “We called our relatives and were scared when we could […]
