Turkey is dealing with one of the world’s worst homelessness emergencies following earthquakes that devastated swaths of the country
ADIYAMAN, Turkey—,to provide shelter to hundreds of thousands of displaced people a week after the disaster.
More than 41,200 died in Turkey and Syria from the Feb. 6 earthquakes. At least two million people in Turkey, a nation of 85 million, have lost their homes, experts estimate.
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