Apocalypse in Southern Turkey (Türkiye)
Providing context, noting the region's charms
“No heart can take it ... Oh my God…Disaster is upon us,” one of my Turkish friends posted on Facebook. A friend of a friend lost five relatives who were crushed in the 7.8 magnitude earthquake. The BBC quotes eyewitnesses equating the devastation to “an apocalypse.”
The death toll in the earthquake, in the Southern part of the country, has surpassed 20…
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