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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Ece Toksabay

Turkey quake survivors struggle to find shelter nearly three weeks on

FILE PHOTO: People work at a tent manufacturing workshop, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in the rebel-held northwestern Syrian city of Azaz, Syria February 18, 2023. REUTERS/Mahmoud Hassano

Omran Alswed and his family are still living in makeshift shelters almost three weeks after the massive earthquake in southern Turkey, having been unable to find a place in an official camp.

Nearly two million people left homeless by the quake are being housed in tents, container homes and other facilities in and beyond the region, according to Turkish authorities, but Alswed, 25, said his extended family had not yet benefitted.

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