Rising from the Ruins in Turkey
More than a year after two powerful earthquakes, Rotary’s relief efforts remain for many a path out of the wreckage.
It was just past 4 a.m. when Ferit Binzet finally drifted off to sleep. All night, one of his cats meowed and paced through his apartment in the city of Ad?yaman, in southeastern Turkey. It was, looking back, as if the unsettled animal knew something was different about this night.
At 4:17 a.m., Binzet knew it too.
Loud booms shook him and his wife awake. Their bathroom walls exploded into the hallway. The kitchen caved in. The building lurched side to side. Binzet cried out to God.
“Please don’t take my soul.”
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