Ebru Ozturk, from Salisbury, travelled on Thursday to Kahramanmaraş, one of the southern Turkish provinces hardest hit by Monday’s devastating earthquakes, where her 49-year-old brother, Hakan, is missing and presumed to be under rubble after his block of flats collapsed.
“I am travelling with my brother’s two teenage children, aged 15 and 17, and his ex-wife, who live in England,” Ozturk said. “They wanted to visit him this summer. Half of the city is destroyed now and it’s all chaos. [During a visit] last month, I stayed in three different houses in the city. All three have fallen.”
