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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Deniz Barış Narlı, Ruth Michaelson and Lorenzo Tondo in Adana

‘What shall we do?’ Millions displaced in Turkey and Syria after earthquake

People walk past a ruined building in Samandağ, Turkey
People walk past a ruined building in Samandağ, Turkey. Photograph: Alessio Mamo/The Guardian

A week after two 7.8- and 7.6-magnitude earthquakes levelled swathes of southern Turkey and northern Syria, hundreds of thousands of people are sleeping in the open in often sub-zero conditions.

In Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, one of the areas hardest hit by the quake and where some citizens said it took emergency teams days to arrive, many sleep in their cars or in makeshift tents under market stalls, with nowhere else to go.

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