The earthquakes in Turkey and Syria have shaken both countries
Many thousands are dead, and their governments are struggling to cope
THE silence was the most unbearable part. Every quarter of an hour the bulldozers and cranes digging through the debris stopped working so that rescuers could hear the screams of people trapped underneath. There were none—only the sobs and prayers of onlooking relatives and friends. The rubble was all that remained of a 14-storey building in Adana, a city of 1.8m people in southern Turkey. A few hundred metres away the scene repeated itself. Another crowd, another apartment block reduced to a mound of concrete pancakes.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “A crushing blow”
Europe February 11th 2023
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