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Survivor of Turkey's earthquake lament loss of family members

"This is a faultline, there shouldn’t be permits for seven- or eight-storey buildings, look at the metal they used - is human life this worthless?"

Yusuf Turan, a shop owner in Gaziantep’s Nurdagi district has been sleeping in the car near the collapsed buildings of his family members since Monday's earthquake that killed his parents, his brother, sister-in-law, two nephews and his wife’s parents.

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