Turkey, a year after the life-changing earthquakes

HATAY, Turkey - "It felt like the world was turning upside down. Telling the story is not the same as experiencing it." Sixty-one-year-old Kanraman Karat vividly remembers this night last year when the earth shook violently in the middle of his slumbers, taking tens of thousands of lives and destroying hundreds of thousands of properties.

Karat and his family fled their house in Iskenderun, Hatay, as it started to crumble, before it was completely flattened. They were lucky to have been living in a single-story house, which probably saved their lives.

They lived in the streets for days, then in tents and now in one of the container cities set up by the government.

On February 6, 2023, a series of powerful earthquakes flattened southeastern Turkey and northern Syria. Almost 26 million people have been affected by the temblor, according to the World Health...