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For Quake Survivors, Art Brings Healing In Turkey's Antioch

Traditional quilt artist Nahya Guzelyurt works in the Antakya Art and Culture Market (Credit: AFP)

At first glance, it's a happy image -- hundreds of smiling faces torn from newspapers and pasted into a frame. But these are ghosts, victims of the 2023 earthquake in Turkey that claimed more than 53,000 lives.

The montage was put together by a local artist from Antakya, whose life was among the thousands upended when the 7.8-magnitude quake devastated huge areas of southern Turkey in the early hours of February 6, 2023.

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