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Peter Kenyon

More than 6 months after Turkey's quake, people who lost homes still await new ones

Emine, her husband and child search through materials recovered from destroyed buildings in Adiyaman. (Alice Martins for NPR)

ADIYAMAN, Turkey — In the shade of a tree on a hot summer morning, women and children sit patiently outside a makeshift bakery squeezed into a small, temporary building. One of the women says she comes here most mornings, because this bakery has loaves of bread to give away to families in distress — like hers.

The devastating Feb. 6 earthquake and major aftershocks that killed some 50,000 people in southern Turkey also left nearly 3 million people displaced and in need of shelter.

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