Havva Arslan and her husband, Hasan, lost 36 of their relatives in the quake
Hasan Arslan, and his wife Havva visit what's left of their home, where they were trapped with his three children for five days until being rescued, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Nurdagi, Turkey, on March 4 2023. Picture: SUSANA VERA/REUTERS
It has been barely two weeks since the family was discharged from hospital and the five of them are trying to pick up the strands of what they call their previous life. They tentatively re-establish routines in their makeshift new home behind a petrol station. “Kids need school,” Havva says, adding that authorities are setting up a school in a nearby tent city with children at first getting back for two days a week.Eldest daughter Fatmagul has begun preparing for university entrance exams, which she is due to take in a few months.
As walls collapsed around them, the floor beneath gave way and the Arslan family fell one floor down, with the four floors above crashing down around them seconds later.
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