The photo of a father holding his daughter's hand killed in Turkey's February 6 earthquake has provoked an outpouring of sympathy and support from around the world, he told Agence France-Presse.
Mesut Hancer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, who was killed in the 7.8-magnitude earthquake, in Kahramanmaras on February 7, 2023. Adem Altan/ AFP
Around three weeks after the disaster that killed more then 44,000 people in Turkey and thousands more in neighboring Syria, AFP photographer Adem Altan tracked down Mesut Hancer in the capital Ankara.As well as his daughter, lost under the ruins of an eight-storey block of flats, "I lost my mother, my brothers, my nephews in the quake," said Hancer.
Now, a businessman has offered the former baker an administrative job at a TV channel and given the family an apartment in Ankara.
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