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The port in the Iskenderun district of Türkiye's southern Hatay province, which suffered damage in last year's earthquakes and was adversely...

It’s been one year since a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey and northern Syria on Feb. 6, 2023. More than 52,000 people were killed. Hundreds remain missing, and 11 of the 17 provinces in Turkey’s south were declared disaster zones.

As Turkey's government organizes national events to mark the anniversary of last year's devastating and deadly earthquake, people take to the streets in protest of current conditions.

A year after a devastating earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, many people remain without permanent homes. Some are still searching for missing loved ones.

Tugba Akyuz and her family rushed to check on her brother, Mustafa Batuhan Gulec, on the morning a year ago when a massive earthquake struck southern Turkey, only to find the ruins of his apartment's collapsed five-storey building. A year later - on the anniversary of the deadliest disaster in Turkey's modern history - they are still searching for him. "If he were alive, he'd find us," Akyuz said in her home in Iskenderun, a Mediterranean port city in Hatay province.

A year after a devastating earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, many people remain without permanent homes. Some are still searching for missing loved ones.

According to official figures, 14 million people in Turkey were impacted by the earthquake with more than 850,000 housing units either destroyed or badly damaged.

The situation is still critical and Antioch a

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