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Our europe correspondent, nick beake, has travelled from gaziantep, the epicentre of the quakes, to one community shattered by the disaster. we re venturing into turkey s remote mountainside. but it all looks so familiar, because village after village bear the same scars. we decide to stop at a place called urdek and find the dead now outnumber the living here. it s a tiny part of a wider tragedy in which we don t expect to meet mehmet and fatma from north london. which one is your house here? this one. they were visiting here when the earthquake struck. seven members of their family were killed. tried to save them. ali shouting here, save me, save me, which saved ali. but shamsi, kamal, aisha. no answer, nothing. ....
Called erdek and find the dead now outnumber the living here. it s a tiny part of a wider tragedy in which we don t expect to meet mehmet and fatma from north london. which one is your house here? this one. they were visiting here when the earthquake struck. seven members of their family were killed. tried to save them. ali shouting here, save me, save me, which saved ali. but shamsi, kamal, aisha, they not. no answer, nothing. they already died. we shout their name, they not answer. they say they want to show us exactly where each life ended, including the youngest asrah, just two years old, her cousin aisha, 16, and umut effa, who was looking forward to celebrating his fifth birthday. they were running, ....
Earthquakes, the challenge of starting to rebuild is becoming clearer. and it s absolutely massive. round the corner, we find this man. 30 years a lorry driver in london, he s rushed back to his homeland to find this. you know, i am crying, i was born in this village. you were born here? yes, i was born here. i know everything. then i come, you don t see nothing. lost everything. and no insurance, no nothing, and the government are not helping. and for fatma, she can t bear the thought of leaving turkey like this and trying to resume life in the uk. how can i do it? i don t know. in london? nick beake, bbc news, in the village of urdek. ....
They ve buried 35 people in this small village more than half of those who are living here. it s actually quite hard to take all of this in. a whole community, totally flattened. but it s the scale of this disaster that s so shocking, because this village could be one of so many here in turkey or in syria. and a week on, after these earthquakes, the challenge of starting to rebuild is becoming clearer. and it s absolutely massive. i don t know how many people is left now. and for fatma, she can t bear the thought of leaving turkey like this and trying to resume life in the uk. how can i do it? i don t know. in london? ....
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