KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey — Yunus Emre Kaya and his fiancé Gulcin were planning a life together before Monday’s devastating earthquake shattered their dreams. Two days later, Kaya said a final
Yunus Emre Kaya sits next to the body of his fiancee Gulcin in a sports hall where relatives are identifying their loved ones in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, February 8, 2023. REUTERS
Two days later, Kaya said a final farewell to his fiancé, unzipping a black bodybag to identify her body in a sports hall where casualties from the disaster had been laid out. He gave her a last embrace.“I was planning to clothe her with a wedding dress but now I will clothe her with a funeral shroud,” he said, weeping on the floor of the sports hall in Kahramanmaras, near the epicenter of the quake which killed more than 9,000 people in southern Turkey.
“Imagine somebody tied your hands and feet and you cannot get up. There is no food, no water, no air,” he said. “This is how I am. I am like the walking dead.” He found her home in ruins. There were people in the rubble and screams from those trapped underneath. He later learned that both Gulcin and her sister had died.
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