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Assiya HAMZA

In Turkish village flattened by quake, ‘no tents, no shelter, only cars to sleep in’

The streets of Atalar are strewn with debris following Monday's devastating earthquakes. © Assiya Hamza, FRANCE 24

From our special correspondents in Atalar – More than 72 hours after the catastrophic quakes that ravaged southern Turkey, residents of Atalar, a mountainous village west of Gaziantep, are still waiting for aid to reach them, with only their cars to shelter them from the bitter cold.

“We have nowhere to go. It’s cold. We are freezing.” Shivering in a puffer jacket, a shawl wrapped around her head, a woman sits on a pile of a gravel, quietly sobbing. The mountain of rubble at her feet points to where her home once stood.

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