'Feels like yesterday': Turkey grieves on first quake anniversary

Antakya, Turkey (AFP) Feb 6, 2024

Ravaged by grief, bearing torches and holding up portraits of their lost families, thousands of earthquake survivors gathered on Tuesday for the first anniversary of Turkey's worst disaster of modern times. At 4:17 am, the moment the first 7.8-magnitude quake set off a calamity that claimed more than 53,000 lives in Turkey and nearly 6,000 in Syria, the mourners gathered in the ruins of Anta