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Turkey Earthquake

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When the earthquake hit: “Everything is shaking, people are screaming. Outside it is cold and dark.”

By Ayham Taha · February 21, 2023

Ayham Taha, 33, is a technical advisor for CARE Global on humanitarian food security and livelihoods and works on several projects in Türkiye and Northern Syria. He and his wife are Syrian and have been working in humanitarian aid since the conflict in Syria started. His experiences in the wake of the earthquakes of February 6 are worse than anything he has ever seen. This is how Ayham recounts the last couple of days.

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Turkey and Syria: “The situation before the earthquake was dire, catastrophic – and now it is even more so”

By CARE Staff · February 8, 2023

Sherine Ibrahim and Ayham Taha have been trying to describe what life has been like in Turkey and Syria since the deadly earthquakes struck the region early Monday morning. But it's hard. “No matter how much I try to describe it,” Taha said to CNN’s Julia Chatterly, “it is still [nothing] compared to what it is on the ground.”

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“Trying to find survivors under the rubble.” The day after Turkey and Syria’s deadly earthquakes

By CARE Staff · February 7, 2023

In Gaziantep, Turkey, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck early Monday morning. On the day after the disaster, communities are trying to dig out and recover. Government officials have already declared it to be the deadliest earthquake to hit the country in two decades, with a tremor as strong as the 1939 earthquake, which killed an estimated 30,000 people.

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