Families bemoan official response as they comb rubble, hospitals and morgues for trace of loved ones
akine Nur Gül unfurled a worn piece of squared paper on which more than a dozen hospitals across south-eastwere listed in blue biro, a grim roll call of everywhere she and her brother have tried to find their missing family members.
Like thousands of others, Nur and Ertuğrul say they are in a race against time to find their missing relatives, even recruiting distant family members to check hospitals in their towns across the country to see if their family members are there. “They couldn’t even find a bone from one person, never mind 28,” said Ertuğrul, who at one point even searched the area that was once the basement of the building himself to check the foundations. A week after the earthquake struck, the Delen siblings left to begin searching hospitals, morgues and cemeteries.Photograph: Rena Effendi/The Guardian
“There are a lot of families in this situation, a lot of people like me,” said Mehmet. “Some of the people who came to rescue their relatives said, ‘We heard Mustafa’s voice, we took him out and we sent him to a hospital in Adana.’” Their father began searching hospitals in Adana, Mehmet said, travelling as far as Istanbul in the far north of Turkey and stopping at every medical facility along the way to hunt for evidence of his missing son.
The search for their father, mother and brother occupies Nur and Ertuğrul’s days, as they methodically return to hospitals across the south-east.
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