Earthquake in Turkey: The road filled with debris

On street number 21, in Antakia (Antioch), Hatay province of southern Turkey, the houses of dozens of families were located until Sunday.

By Monday, there was almost nothing left standing.

The most devastating earthquake to hit Turkey since 1999 littered the road with huge piles of debris. It left survivors homeless, desperately searching for missing relatives, shocked, still trying to digest what happened to them.

Rescue crews are finding it difficult to reach some of the hardest hit areas in the country due to damaged roads, bad weather, lack of adequate resources, heavy machinery…

“The words won’t come out, they’re stuck in my throat. Crying is no longer medical,” Halil Gentsoglou admitted yesterday.

The city center looks to him, he continued, like a “ghost town”.

“We went back 50 years. Our lives were destroyed. Our children are deeply traumatized. Every house lost at least two or three people.”

Hard to find even one building standing on 21st Street. Debris as far as the eye can see. Dozens of injured people were pulled from the ruins of their homes until Sunday. People are standing on the street stunned, they can’t believe their eyes.

Abdulkadir Doan lost his parents in the earthquake. He wants to hope that they will save his cousin.

“We want them to save our women, our relatives, the people who were overwhelmed. This is the priority for us because what we want is to stay alive with them. My cousin is buried in the debris and I’m here and there’s nothing I can do” to get him out alive, he said.

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