Aid is trickling into Turkey nearly a week after the deadly earthquake. In the southern city of Osmaniye, people are squeezing into tents or sleeping in cars near their damaged homes.
A woman sits on the rubble as emergency rescue teams search for people under the remains of destroyed buildings in Nurdagi town on the outskirts of Osmaniye city southern Turkey, on Feb. 7. Now, nearly a week later, many people in Osmaniye are still living in tents and other makeshift shelters.A woman sits on the rubble as emergency rescue teams search for people under the remains of destroyed buildings in Nurdagi town on the outskirts of Osmaniye city southern Turkey, on Feb. 7.
Osmaniye took its share of the hit from the powerful earthquake and large aftershocks that devastated a huge swath of territory across the southern part of the country last week.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan included the city in his tour of hard-hit areas, acknowledging that the government didn't respond quickly enough.
She says her two-story house was cracked in the earthquake, so she and her relatives are now sharing a tent with two other families. She's also been in mourning for 17 members of her extended family, who perished in the quake."Even if the house is safe, I can't go in right now, it feels like it's shaking when I go inside the house," she says, adding that a"tent is good enough for me.
She was not impressed by President Erdogan's visit and his claim that no state could have dealt with a disaster of this size. But more irritating to her was the fact that Erdogan's main political ally, the leader of the far-right"This is his hometown, he needs to show up," she says, adding"He's losing votes in his own hometown."A walk through this Osmaniye neighborhood offers anecdotal evidence to support a popular and longstanding complaint.
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