When we first reported on the earthquake in February 2023, the scale was overwhelming. We heard from families who had escaped as buildings around them collapsed and rescue workers described the devastation as the worst they had ever seen. Each day the casualty figures mounted. It is now thought that at least 55,000 people died.
A year on, we have been catching-up with survivors to hear how their lives have changed. One family – Iman, Karim and their 7-year-old daughter Nada – had fled from the war in Syria to have a new life in Turkey. They lost family, friends and their home in the earthquake.
When host James Reynolds called the family up in the last few days, they told him they were doing much better. Young Nada, however, is still having nightmares about the floor shaking and people she has lost.
“I have a dream about my friend Iman, she died from the earthquake,” Nada tells James. “I’m so sad about her, and I have a friend who moved to Canada – I miss her so much.”
We also hear messages from BBC listeners in Turkey and reunite with Harun, an English teacher in southern Turkey, and Bilal who is living in the east of the country and had his business destroyed last year.
A Boffin Media production in partnership with the BBC OS team.
In the Studio: Helle Nebelong
His and hers medicine
The Fifth Floor: A journalist's life in Israel
BBC OS Conversations: Sudan's war - One year on
Bonus: The Global Story
From the Archive: Heart and Soul - Faith, terrorists and mercy at Guantanamo
Bonus: What in the World
Forward Thinking: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Assignment: New Caledonia - new agreement needed
In the Studio: Ellie Simmonds
El Salvador's missing children
The Fifth Floor: My Ramadan
BBC OS Conversations: Living with cancer
Heart and Soul: The caste faultlines in Modi’s India
Azovstal: The 80 day siege
Forward Thinking: Is it ethical to live longer?
Assignment: Secret Sisters. Political prisoners in Belarus
In the Studio: Maria Grachvogel
Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary
Bonus: The Global Jigsaw: Moscow attack: disinfo wars
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Global News Podcast
Stuff You Should Know
The Frommer’s Travel Show
WDW Radio - Your Walt Disney World Information Station
The Dish Food Travel Show