In Hatay province, people believe the earthquake will have claimed 200,000 victims throughout Turkey and Syria once it is totaled up.
have been sent from around the world in one of the most desperate efforts of the 21st century. When they—as is almost inevitable—find a corpse, they put it into a black body bag, and it is driven away by a waiting hearse.has hit near the city of Iskenderun at the time of writing. It kills more, forces yet more evacuations and upends the lives of the survivors, who have no idea when their nightmare is going to end.
In Turkey, earthquakes are commonplace, but are also intensely political, and could prove fatal to President Erdogan’s attempts to tighten his grip on power in the upcoming May elections. After a previous terrifying earthquake in 1999, which killed around 17,000 people in Istanbul, Erdogan’s AKP capitalized by promising reform and anti-corruption measures to make buildings safe and earthquake-proof.
Yet miracles are still occurring. The previous day, a 12-year-old girl had been dug out alive from an adjacent apartment building, giving Hassan some small hope. His family’s odds are low, however—one exhausted rescue worker estimated that they now pull out 500 corpses for every one person they find alive.
It is difficult to find words to portray the level of damage in this city—an ancient port town home to one of the contenders for the world’s oldest Christian church, the road to which has been blocked by debris. Possibly a third of buildings in this city, originally home to around 400,000 people, are completely flattened, with many others partially collapsed, or their foundations broken beyond repair.On the central Inonu Boulevard is a cruel monument to the whims of fate.
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