She was scared for her life
The 44-year-old flew from England to visit her boyfriend in Diyarbakır, situated in south-eastern Turkey, on February 2. Little did she know that a few days later she would wake up to a natural disaster that made families homeless and killed more than 40,000 people to date.
"We actually laid on top of the bed with our clothes and shoes on. It was terrifying. We went back to sleep and then I was woken again by all the wardrobe doors - and then we went outside again and I could feel all the tremors." "I was told that there were more than 20 people buried there. I have heard that villages in the area just got wiped out.
Families were filmed gathering around fires to keep them warm. Members of the community in Diyarbakırm, which is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey, have used the chicken to make a "massive pot" of food for the homeless people.
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