Nor could she hear her son’s cries in the dark, and both believed the other was lying dead in the destroyed building. “Boom-boom-boom, the building went down floor by floor on top of us,” she recalled, describing how she had kept yelling her son’s name while trapped under the debris in the hope that all five of them could die together as a family.īut Erdem could not hear his mother’s calls through the mass of concrete. “This is my home,” said Erdem’s mother, Zeliha, 37, as she watched excavators digging up their old life and dumping it into heavy trucks.
Ten hours after the quake, his parents and siblings were also saved by local residents who dug at the wreck of the building with their bare hands and whatever tools they could find.ĭuring an interview Thursday, they were living in a government-provided tent, along with hundreds of thousands of others who survived the disaster that hit southern Turkey and north Syria, killing more than 43,000. He was pulled from the rubble two hours later by neighbors and taken to an aunt’s home. The teen goes on to recount that he believes his family are dead, along with many others in the city, and that he will soon join them.īut he was destined to be among some of the first saved from the destroyed building.
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