Turkey Earthquake survivors ‘ Worse than the bombardment in Syria

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Two days after a series of earthquakes hit southern Turkey, relief efforts are yet to reach some areas of the country. The province of Hatay, which is home to some, thousands Syrian refugees, has been particularly hard hit, with deliverance brigades overwhelmed by the position of destruction. Aid has been delayed by the substantial damage the earthquake has caused to the roads and the mercenary field near the parochial capital, Antakya.

News journalists spoke to two Syrian women who survived the earthquake in Hatay province.

Journalists spoke to two Syrian refugee women, who live in the city of Reyhanli in Hatay province, near the border with Syria. Both were widowed in the war in Syria and had fled across the border seven times ago, in hunt of safety for their children. That is how they described the situation.

Um Hadi, mama of four

When the first earthquake hit, we were visiting Um Khalid. We felt that the house would swallow us, we felt we were going to die. The electricity went off, but we managed to run outdoors.

Cries, wails, fear, cold, and rain! It was worse than the bombardment in Syria, worse than the fighter spurts. When the spurts are coming to bomb, you hear them, you know they're coming, you can hide. With the earthquake, you do not know when it'll hit.

We got out and stayed under a tree in the cold wave, as the earth kept shaking. We were freezing so we started a small fire to keep warm. There was nowhere to go and we were too hysterical to go back inside our homes, which were still standing but were damaged by the earthquake.

Journalists spoke to two Syrian women who survived the earthquake in Hatay province.

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We've spent two nights like this formerly, sitting on chairpersons outdoors, in the cold wave, not having a nanosecond of sleep. We're homeless refugees yet again.

Moment, the megacity put up a many canopies for people to use as sanctum, but no aid has reached us, no bone has come to help us.

The bakeries aren't working. Indeed, if you want to buy chuck , you ca n’t find any. I went around the whole city looking to buy food for our children and could n’t find anything but biscuits and samoon( a type of bun), and those were precious, too.

The prices of everything have jumped two to three times. I bought a candle to have some light at night; it’s 15 lira now($0.80), it used to be four($0.20).

There's still no electricity, no handling water, no gas, no energy. The hospitals are all damaged. There were also people killed by the earthquake. We heard the minaret of one mosque fell on a auto where a family was hiding and killed them. There are other victims too, but not as important as Antakya. There, there are so numerous dead, utmost of them Syrians.

And in Syria, the situation is indeed worse. So numerous dead. I lost some cousins, too.

Um Khalid, mama of three

Thank God we're alive. But we've been sitting outdoors in the cold and rain since Monday morning now.

My children are with us out in these indurating temperatures. They're hysterical , they're shaking from the cold wave in front of my eyes; one is formerly sick. God have mercy on us.

I've lost cousins in the earthquake. My relative lost his woman and children; another relative lost her children in Syria. So numerous people passed away.

We do not dare to go inside our homes. I live on the first bottom and am still hysterical . The structure didn't collapse but it was damaged. And they told us that themulti-storey structures aren't safe and we shouldn't go by.

There's no electricity, no handling water. We're buying water to drink. A small truck comes by and sells it for 15 lira($0.80) a bottle. They're all exploiting the situation.

History night, the authorities came and gave out one samoon per family. Imagine, one samoon for the four of us.

The roads are cut off and we can not go anywhere differently. We're on our own, there are no aid organisations then, no government help.

The situation was formerly bad before this happed. The rent was going up, the prices were going up. We were floundering further than when we were in Syria. We were formerly going empty. May God help us.

Both Um Hadi and Um Khalid used aliases for security reasons