We applied to receive tent, aid or something, but until now we didn’t receive anything,” said Hassan Saimoua, a refugee staying with his family in the playground. In a public playground in Turkey’s southeastern city of Gaziantep, Syrian refugees made homeless by the quake used plastic sheets, blankets, cardboard and broken up pieces of furniture to erect makeshift tents on a patch of grass. In Syria’s shattered Aleppo city, UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Monday that the rescue phase was “coming to a close”, with the focus turning to shelter, food and schooling as low temperatures reduced the already slim chances of survival. “I do not have a lot of expectation from this life but the lives of our children are important,” Riza Atahan, from Hatay, said as he put his wife and daughter on a bus heading to safety about 300km away. The disaster, with a combined death toll in Turkey and neighbouring Syria now exceeding 37,000, has devastated whole cities in both countries, leaving survivors homeless in the bitter cold, at times sleeping on piles of rubble. He will become one of more than 158,000 people who have evacuated the swathe of southern Turkey hit by the quake, one of the deadliest tremors in the region’s modern history. Several of our relatives died, there are still ones under the rubble,” he said, as he prepared to follow his family to Isparta in southern Turkey. We will start from zero, without belongings, without a job,” said 22-year-old Hamza Bekry, a Syrian originally from Idlib who has lived in Hatay, in southern Turkey, for 12 years. Kahramanmaras/Antakya - Survivors joined a mass exodus from earthquake-hit zones in Turkey on Tuesday, some leaving their homes with little hope of coming back or seeing loved ones pulled out of the rubble, at a time when some of the rescue operations are pulling out.
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