the nights of anguish of the survivors of Kahramanmaras

At night in Kahramanmaras (Turkey), there are the victims who sleep by the roadside, and those who have found shelter in a cafeteria. “They are like my brothers, that’s how it is“, says the manager. It hosts several families, about fifty survivors in total. A father worked in the textile industry. His business was destroyed, and his building is now also in danger of collapsing. His wife and his children are according to him”traumatized“.

Go or stay?

Another man managed to get his sons and wife to safety, but his mother-in-law remained under the rubble. “Saving her would be a miracle for us“, he says. The nights are short and complicated for all. At breakfast time, the children are fed first. “Tomorrow I’m going to Istanbul (Turkey). And if there is an earthquake there, Turkey, I want to leave“, confides a little girl. To leave or to stay after the disaster? This is the question that survivors are asking themselves today.