“The hardest hit Turkish cities were home to a large number of Syrians, said Fadel Abdul Ghany, head of the UK-based Syrian Network for Human Rights, or SNHR, which monitors human rights violations inside Syria. Both the badly battered provinces of Hatay and Gaziantep in Turkey had just under half a million Syrian inhabitants each, he pointed out. “”That means a lot of the dead in these cities will be Syrians and a lot of the damage will be impacting Syrians,”” Abdul Ghany explained. “”Many of them will have lost everything: Families, property, jobs. It was already a struggle for many of them before. It’s going to be even harder to rebuild again.””
Some are now returning to Syria to check on their own families after the earthquake, others will be going to mourn with relatives, Abdul Ghany noted. “
