The balloons were “the last toy (he could) offer” to young victims, said the photographer. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ANTAKYA - Dozens of red balloons speckle the rubble of a destroyed building alongside a main road in Turkey’s quake-hit south.according to Mr Ogun Sever Okur, who is behind the memorial.
Against the monochrome backdrop, a handful of possessions attest to the young lives lost in the earthquake. “I started here and then moved on to the building behind. This area struck me. I couldn’t sleep for several nights because we couldn’t rescue the children from here,” he said. More than 42,000 people were killed in Turkey in the earthquake, though Turkish officials have not yet said how many of those were children.Mr Okur, a father-of-two, said there was no political motive behind his work, instead emphasising its sentimental meaning.
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