ANTAKYA: As they left Antakya, Turkey's earthquake-shattered home of ancient civilizations, its anguished residents scribbled farewell messages on the ruins: 'We'll come back' and 'Don't lose hope.
'Last month's deadly 7.8-magnitude quake and its aftershocks came down hard on Antakya — a fabled city near Syria once known as Antioch — ravaging centuries of treasured history.Now, its residents fear the city they eventually return to will lack the vibrance and tradition of cultural acceptance that distinguished Antakya from the rest of Turkey until disaster struck on February 6, claiming more than 50,000 lives.
He has issued a decree giving his government the right to take ownership of the destroyed property and adopting urban renewal projects that cannot be discussed or appealed by residents of the affected provinces.Moving to the mountains'We are going to rebuild Antakya on the outskirts of the mountains,' Huseyin Yayman, lawmaker of the ruling AKP party, told the private CNN Turk broadcaster.'We will rebuild a new city there.
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