Before the Turkish earthquake, Abdullah Senel had nerves of steel. But these days, just being inside a house makes him nervous — and it only takes the sound of a plane flying overhead to put him on edge.
KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey –
In Kahramanmaras, a Turkish city near the quake’s epicentre, survivors remain haunted by the trauma one month on. “I can still hear the screams of people crying for help on every floor. This pain will never go away.”Workers who arrived from all over Turkey spray water on the debris and rubble-laden trucks trundle along the road waiting to dump the waste into a landfill outside the city.Columns of dust emerging from the clean-up cover the horizon, carried by the wind and generating grey clouds seen from kilometres away, blurring the visibility in the region surrounded by mountains.
“I know it’s risky,” admitted Veli Akgoz as he loaded a door and curtain rods onto the roof of his car. “We are scared but we have no other choice,” said Solmaz Tugacar, desperately looking for a tent with her neighbours in the city’s main square, where quake survivors line up to get food or tea from aid trucks. In one part of Kahramanmaras offering a panoramic view of the city, a dozen tents are housed in the garden of a local authority’s two-storey offices.
“We are okay now as the weather is nice, but what will happen if it rains?,” he asked, holding his two-month-old baby.
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