The Feb. 6 earthquake decimated swaths of Turkey and Syria, killing tens of thousands of people.
ANTAKYA, Turkey — Hamid Yakisikli has waited outside the pile of concrete that used to be his house since an earthquake devastated his home in the ancient city of Antakya. He and his two brothers have endured freezing conditions, in big jackets and wool hats, waiting for rescuers to retrieve the body of their mother, Fatma, from under the rubble.
. “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. The Yakisiklis only slept when the excavators turned off their engines, in a tent pitched in an abandoned school near their former home. There was no water, electricity or toilet in the tent.
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, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. On Wednesday, Abdulrizak Dagli and his wife read the Quran and raised their hands to the skies, as they waited for rescuers to retrieve their son and his wife, and a missing grandchild. Their 1-year-old granddaughter was pulled out of the debris alive five days after the earthquake.
Donmez, her husband, three children and their large dog have slept in a park, first in one of its small food stands, then in an empty kiosk they filled with blankets to keep out the cold. Men sit in front of the rubble of an area destroyed during the earthquake in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. But that wait may be long as Turkey struggles to provide shelter for the hundreds of thousands of new homeless.
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