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Al Jazeera
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Stefania D'Ignoti, Abdulsalam Jarroud

Turkey’s Gaziantep goes from a refuge to a site of devastation

A view of a destroyed building in Gaziantep after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the southern provinces of Turkey on Monday, February 6 [Mehmet Akif Parlak/Anadolu Agency]

Gaziantep, Turkey – When Kasem al-Abrash felt the ground shaking beneath his feet, his mind immediately went back to his hometown of Idlib in northern Syria.

He had fled for his life from there to Gaziantep, across the border in Turkey, in 2020.

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