The families still searching for loved ones a year after Turkey’s deadly earthquakes
The IndependentSuna Ozturk has nothing but photos left of her daughter Tugba Kosar. open image in gallery A lone apartment block stands where houses once stood in Turkey’s Hatay “I spend a lot of time crying,” says Suna, 56. open image in gallery Batuhan Gulec, who went missing in the Turkey earthquakes “I checked all the hospitals in Turkey where earthquake survivors were taken, but I could not find my son,” says Sema, 55. open image in gallery Sema Gulec says she has ‘lost trust in the authorities’ and feels they don’t ‘have her back’ “We have not received the necessary support so far,” says Ayten Tuncer, whose sister Nesrin, 40, went missing after her house in Antakya city centre collapsed. “The biggest demand of the families is that the authorities should make more efforts to ensure matching.” open image in gallery Ali and Hayriye Dilli, who were killed in the earthquakes.
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