On February 6, 2023, Türkiye woke up to a misty and bitter morning. Morning 04.17occurred with a magnitude of 7.7 and lasted 65 seconds. Kahramanmaraş centered earthquakeIt was followed by an earthquake that occurred at 13.24 at noon, had a magnitude of 7.6 and lasted for 45 seconds.
State institutions, non-governmental organizations, media and volunteers came together as one after the earthquake and all of Turkey joined hands to heal the wounds of the earthquake as soon as possible.
In addition, many countries around the world TurkeyTeams were sent to participate in search and rescue efforts in the region. search and rescue efforts It took weeks.
seen days or even weeks after the earthquake miraculous salvations Even though it rekindles hopes that are about to fade away to heal wounds, was not enough to relieve the pain.
More than 50 thousand of our citizens lost their lives and more than a hundred thousand were injured in these two earthquakes, which devastated Turkey and were recorded as the "Disaster of the Century".
Following the earthquakes that affected 11 provinces and rendered hundreds of thousands of buildings unusable, some of the people of the region were forced to migrate, while others were placed in tent and container cities by the state.
Those earthquake victims, Disaster of the CenturyOn the anniversary of , they spoke to Everybody Hear Adıyaman Correspondent Mehmet Toprak, who was also an earthquake victim and lost nearly 20 of his first-degree relatives in the earthquakes, and explained what they experienced in the earthquake disaster.
“I LOST MY SON, MY DAUGHTER, MY BRIDE AND MY GRANDSON”
A woman who lost her children in the earthquakes the earthquake, “2023 was very bad for us. I lost my lives; I lost my son, my daughter, my daughter-in-law, my grandchild... Three-storey building. The first floor is zero, the second floor is on top of one. My babies were stressed there. for 5 days debris"I waited for my babies at the beginning of the day."
The earthquake survivor said that when he arrived at his house after the earthquake, he saw that his house had turned into a pile of rubble and used the following statements:
“At that moment, a message came to my phone. 'Your lady is on the side, come and save her.' it said. I went and looked, half of it was inside and the other half was outside. Six columns, upper columns, you cannot intervene. Meanwhile, it is also raining. We held an umbrella over him. 'My feet are starting to get cold.' When he said that, I started to get scared. Then I started to gently dig the back part. After we started digging, thank God, we got the lady out without any trouble, but the lady says to me: Go Ramadan, the children have passed away. I go to the children's room, the house is turned the other way. I'm saying the names of the children, I'm shouting, I'm calling but there's no sound... The column on the side has fallen over. The child cried for two minutes and then his voice stopped. We intervened, but we didn't have a digger, no pickaxe, no tools, and you couldn't help but destroy the huge building. debrisYou can't handle it. The city has become an apocalypse, everyone is running to their own neighborhood. I took one of the children out on the second day, and the other three were taken out by a 24-25 year old volunteer who came to Istanbul on the fourth day. "I put my children in a black bag and took them to the grave."
