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Tent cities in quake-hit southern Türkiye become pet sanctuary

Tent cities in quake-hit southern Türkiye become pet sanctuary

Tent cities in Türkiye’s quake-hit Hatay province have turn into pet sanctuaries.

A tent metropolis was established by the Turkish catastrophe company AFAD within the Millet Park (National Park) within the Iskenderun district.

Several quake victims, whose homes had been destroyed or broken, keep there with the pets that they rescued.

Emra Guzel, who lives within the tent metropolis, informed Anadolu that she adopted her canine seven years in the past.

When the tremors began, she stated her canine Mega bought very scared.

Guzel stated: “We found her by the bedside. There was great damage inside the house. After the earthquake stopped, my daughters started looking for her at home with a light. My daughters did not leave home without the dog.”

Now, they dwell collectively within the tent.

For Dudu Gok, the shrieking of her two parrots was an indication that one thing unhealthy was about to occur.

“I woke up to the noise of the birds…Our house is officially going up and down. The first thing was to get our birds out and my husband took them out right away. We’ve been living here in a tent with the birds since the earthquake,” she stated.

Fatma Demirkandan stated that she stays within the tent metropolis along with her hen “Lemon.”

Demirkandan stated that her hen is like her little one.

“At that moment, I was in shock, I was screaming. I grabbed the bird with its cage and went out… the cage of the bird fell from my hand, and it was shattered. An hour later, I found the bird with its feathers cut off in the corner of the piles,” she added.

More than 45,000 folks died in Türkiye within the magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 earthquakes on Feb. 6. The earthquakes, which had been centered within the province of Kahramanmaras, affected greater than 13 million folks throughout 11 provinces, together with Hatay, Adana, Gaziantep, Diyarbakir, Adiyaman, Malatya, Kilis, Osmaniye, Elazig, and Sanliurfa.

Source: www.anews.com.tr