Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A 7.8 magnitude earthquake has struck an area of southeast Turkey, with tourists urged by the …
People who are stuck in the province take refuge in shopping malls, stadiums, mosques and community centres. “Then, we were just waiting in a traffic jam the whole night and morning in Nurdagi, and we had to find an alternative way south.” Yahaya Hassan Labaran, a Nigerian civil engineering PhD student at Gaziantep University, said that foreign students living alone …
Monday’s earthquake has brought back terrible memories for both Syrians and Ukrainians in Gaziantep. 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. “I realised, oh no, I’m actually supposed to be in a safe space, in Turkey,” al-Abrash said. “It gave me …
