For Turkey, the second anniversary of the devastating earthquakes that struck swathes of the south of the country and parts of Syria on 6 February 2023 was a realisation that for so many moving on from either the second or fourth phases of the five stages of grief (denial,

Four-year-old Emir was at home with his family when two devastating earthquakes hit southern Turkey on 6 February 2023, claiming the lives of more than 53,500 people. The bodies of his mother, father and 10-year-old brother were found in the wreckage of their apartment block in Antakya, a city on the Syrian border.

Our chest, our front, our back, our lips – it’s forbidden for anyone to come and touch those parts of our bodies – no one has that right,” says Alican Mutlu, a youth worker with the Turkish Red Crescent,