After Turkey's earthquake, a grave mental health toll looms

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It has been three weeks since Tugce Seren Gul's aunt and grandmother were killed in Antakya when a devastating earthquake struck Turkey's southeast. And yet every night, she waits until 4.17 am in the morning, the exact time that the disaster hit, to try to go to sleep.

, the most deadly in modern Turkey's history, will have a deep psychological impact, experts and officials say. More than 44,300 people died in the country and over 1.5 million were left homeless in freezing conditions. Millions have lost family members, jobs, life savings and their hopes for the future.. The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund said many of the more than 5.

At a large camp for displaced people next to Hatay Stadium on the outskirts of Antakya, psychosocial support teams have set up small play areas and pitched tents filled with toys. Children sat on multicolored chairs in front of a large portable screen that played cartoons. Some children played hopscotch.

But a large 6.4 magnitude earthquake last Monday shattered efforts to give the children some feeling of normalcy amid weeks of terrifying after shocks. President Tayyip Erdogan has pledged to rebuild homes within a year but it will still be many months before thousands can leave tents or shipping containers and daily queues for food and move into permanent housing, key to gaining the sense of normalcy and safety they lost.

 

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Bizim akılsaglıgımızdan tarih boyunca endişe etdiniz cnkü korkusuz bir millettiz biz bu deprem yıkımınında altından kalktık kalkacagız. Yalnız birgün böyle bir deprem olursa tüm avrupa birleşseniz kalkamazsınız gerci birleşemezsiniz bizimgibi

Depression kills more people than war.

Somebody got paid to write about the obvious?

H.A.A.R.P. is the answer.

America didn't need a quake for our grave mental health toll 🙄

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