Pain and Anger as Turkey Marks Two Years Since Quake Disaster
This is Beirut, 06/02 09:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Tens of thousands of survivors held torchlit vigils across southern Turkey at 4:17 am Thursday, expressing pain and anger as they marked the exact moment two years ago when a devastating earthquake struck, claiming more than 53,000 lives in Turkey and some 6,000 in neighbouring Syria. The 7.8 magnitude quake struck before dawn when people were ...