“The earthquake reminded me of the first day in Syria when ISIL attacked my home town,” says Serbest Salih, a 28-year-old photographer and Syrian refugee. “It feels like starting a new page, like being a refugee again.”
that “it is unlikely that a single child has emerged unscathed in the areas that have been devastated by the earthquake, physically or psychologically.” Yeter Erel Tuma, a thirty-eight-year-old children’s-rights activist from the majority-Kurdish city of, has been staying with her family in a low-rise building that houses the local chamber of commerce while she coördinates civilian relief efforts.
“Outside of Mardin, it’s all mountains. It’s very old. We were scared that Mardin automatically would be destroyed, but no. Today, there was an earthquake. Yesterday, the same thing. But there’s not any damage—yet. “I have friends in the province of Hatay, my colleagues. Some of them lost their families. A big part of Hatay is destroyed. We have a lot of people still under the buildings. It’s been three, four days, and we don’t know if they are alive or not. Two of my friends—we still don’t know any news about them. We’re trying to contact them, but we don’t know. Probably, they are still under the buildings. One of them is a social worker, the other a project coördinator. They live alone.
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