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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Timour Azhari

Children play, mother mourns: life grinds on in a Turkey camp

Fatima Asheri stands with her daughter Melissa in a camp for people whose homes have been destroyed, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Antakya, Hatay province, Turkey, February 23 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

With a smile on her face but pain in her eyes, Fatima Asheri watched her two surviving children play with other young earthquake survivors at a camp for displaced people near the centre of Turkey's disaster zone.

    "The children are having fun and playing. But the parents feel defeated," the 28-year-old said, standing among rows of white tents pitched in the shadow of a large football stadium.

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