15 homes, just three survivors - the community lost under one Turkish apartment block

Before the earthquake, 19-year-old Ceyda Ocan went shopping with her best friend, Damla, to buy the butterfly curtain pictured aboveOn an indistinct mound of rubble in southern Turkey is an uncannily well-preserved window frame with a butterfly print curtain that flutters in the cold wind.Before the earthquake, 19-year-old Ceyda Ocan looked through that window and those curtains, on to her street in the city of Iskenderun.

We witnessed one brief moment of elation on Wednesday when a survivor was pulled from the rubble after more than a day of digging - one of Ceyda's neighbours. Residents of Orcan and other buildings on the street had WhatsApp groups and arranged regular meet-ups. "It was like, your place this week, yours next," one local man said. "This is the Turkish way."

The buildings along that row are now crumpled together in a mass of debris. Only a few traces of the residents inside are visible: a kite decorated with characters from the Disney film Frozen; a torn Quran; a squashed white oven; a red-rimmed clock, frozen in time. "Even if she is alive and hears the sounds asking if anyone is out there, she will not be able to answer," said Derya's sister Deniz, who travelled from her home some two hours away to be at the wreckage.

Berk has not been seen in days and his mother is now in hospital with injuries, apparently telling doctors: "I cannot feel my feet and my son is trapped inside".On the second floor lived another mother and daughter - 64-year-old Hatice and 33-year-old Derya."Whatever one did, the other did the opposite. But they couldn't live without each other," the relative said. "They are probably inches apart even now.

Source: Real Estate Daily Report (realestatedailyreport.net)

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Why dont you show pakistan news? Does it hurts you? How they kill christans..sikhs and hindu? Over blasphemy?

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Why aren't the people showing there anger at the government lack of preparation & allowing buildings over two floors to ever be built in an earthquake zone.

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