“There is no more life here. Antakya is destroyed,” survivor Hamid Yakisikli said. “There may be 100,000 funerals.”
Friends and relatives of the Dagli family family gather around bonfires while rescue teams, search for family members under the rubble of a destroyed building in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, Feb. 15, 2023.
Over 2 million people have left the disaster zone in Turkey, according to the government. But here in the worst-hit city, hundreds are still waiting. At every corner, a few people look at a pile of rubble, praying for a wife, a sister, a son or a friend.He was home when the quake struck. “We were on the third floor, and we just found ourselves on the ground,” he said. His mother’s second-floor apartment was deep underground.
“We will not feel good about leaving. We must get her out and bury her and then we see what we have to do,” he said. “We can’t leave our house,” said Gulsen Donmez, a 46-year-old survivor, leaning back on a plastic chair in a park opposite her damaged house. She left for a few days, but soon rushed back. “There are looters who are taking things from homes. We decided to stay here close to the house so we can go check on it all the time.”
But that wait may be long as Turkey struggles to provide shelter for the hundreds of thousands of new homeless. Enise Karaali, 69, and her son Haydar have spent some nights in the car outside their former real estate office, crushed by debris, and others in a tent near their home.
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