Aslihan Kavasoglu has spent the last six days camped out with her family in a small building in a park in the Turkish city of Antakya, mourning lost relatives. Now all she wants to do is to leave her quake-devastated hometown.
The park appeared to be under construction before the earthquakes and its aftershocks struck. Now it has become a camp for the homeless, but life there is tough.
Boxes of food and water bottles line the entrance of the park, as well as clothing donated from around the country. On Saturday evening volunteer cooks, some of them from other cities, were passing out pasta with tomato sauce.But she said the hygiene conditions had deteriorated, with people having to use the street as toilets.She said she wanted to move to the capital Ankara, where somebody they know told them they had found work and an apartment.
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