Six months on from the deadly earthquakes, thousands are still living in tents and makeshift camps.
Thousands still live in dusty tent cities in Hatay province half a year after the devastating earthquakes struckHulya Yesiloglu gazes just beyond her temporary tent city towards a cemetery and says she often wonders if she would have been better off ending up there rather than surviving Turkey's twin earthquakes.
Even now thousands of people are living here in makeshift tents and container camps. Like ghosts, buildings stripped of their facades still lean over now-vacant lots where houses and businesses once stood. Time has moved on, but progress with rebuilding has been slow, and people who remain, like Hulya, say they feel forgotten.
The couple's plastic tents are pitched just outside their old front door, but it's too hot to do anything but sleep in them at night and no-one is able to move beyond the disaster. "We have solved some issues, however, there are still challenges," says Huseyin Yayman, a member of President Erdogan's Justice and Development Party , and a representative of Hatay in parliament. "Water is not available in the city and we are working to fix that," he adds.
Unlike so many of the buildings in Hatay province, Toki insists none of its structures collapsed in February's quake.
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