ANTAKYA — Havva Tuncay was living in a tent set up in the center of the Turkish city of Antakya when another earthquake hit on Monday night. She had been…
“I cannot sleep at night. Is the same thing going to happen, are we going to experience another earthquake? We are very scared. I haven’t slept for a week,” she told Reuters outside her tent.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Yelling, crashing sounds and cries of “God is greatest” resonated through the camp in a central park as panic took hold, with people running out of their tents, some without shoes. Havva’s 18-year-old son Mehmet Uslu and other residents ran to her, trying to console her. “My heart is pounding,” she said. Phone in one hand, Mehmet put his siblings on speakerphone, his other arm around his mother’s shoulder.Article content
Havva promised that they would leave town and go to Edirne, on the northwestern border of Turkey some 1,350 km away.
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