in antakya. just boundless grief. in this one cemetery, more than 5000 lie buried. woman. to her son, beneath the soil. her grandson comes to comfort her. she cradled the little boy under the rubble for eight hours. yourfather is under the rubble for eight hours. your father is lying here, she tells him. she blames president erdogan for the four loved ones she lost. do you think you will still be president after the election? translation: i president after the election? translation:— president after the election? translation: i hope to god he will not. what _ translation: i hope to god he will not. what i _ translation: i hope to god he will not. what i want _ translation: i hope to god he will not. what i want from - translation: i hope to god he will not. what i want from the i will not. what i want from the ballot box is his dead body. 0ur souls have been ripped away. hejust brings harm. it away. he just brings harm. it wasn't only the earthquakes that killed here. many buildings were death traps. under erdogan, there have been repeated amnesties for illegal cons

_ living in tents and in central antakya where i was earlier, places that have _ antakya where i was not been touched, piles of rubble _ that have not been touched, piles of rubble stilt— that have not been touched, piles of rubble still sitting in the streets. for many— rubble still sitting in the streets. for many people, they thought the state _ for many people, they thought the state and _ for many people, they thought the state and president began as a slow and in _ state and president began as a slow and in the _ state and president began as a slow and in the adequate in their response _ and in the adequate in their response and as you rightly said before _ response and as you rightly said before that, the issue of the economy— before that, the issue of the economy was looming large for a long time _ economy was looming large for a long time the _ economy was looming large for a long time. the lira has been losing value. — time. the lira has been losing value, inflation has been sawing and people _ value, inflation has been sawing and people have felt that in their pockets, _ p

there's no election fever in antakya. just boundless grief in this one cemetery.andson comes to comfort her. she cradled the little boy under the rubble for eight hours. your father is lying here, she tells him. she blames president erdogan for the four loved ones she lost. do you think he will still be president after the election? "i hope to god he won't", she says. "what i want from the ballot box is his dead body". "0ur souls have been ripped away". "hejust brings harm". it wasn't only the earthquakes that killed here. many buildings were death traps. under recep tayyip erdogan, there have been repeated amnesties for illegal construction. developers just had to pay a fine. when disaster struck here, it exposed weaknesses in the turkish state. structuralfaults in president erdogan's long rule. it wasn't just years of shoddy construction work. critics point to a lack of proper oversight, a lack of preparedness. the worst natural disaster in modern turkish history was compounded by man. many died waiting for help that never came. but supporters of the president a

live now to our middle east corrrespondent, anna foster, from antakya.hub where thousands of people we spoke to a couple of hours ago when you are in a hub with thousands of people arriving on buses to cast their votes. tell us where you are now. , , ., ., their votes. tell us where you are now. , ., , ., now. this is one of the places that they come — now. this is one of the places that they come to _ now. this is one of the places that they come to next _ now. this is one of the places that they come to next when _ now. this is one of the places that they come to next when they - now. this is one of the places that they come to next when they get i now. this is one of the places that l they come to next when they get off they come to next when they get off the buses and here in turkey people vote in schools. this one you can see is very damaged and unsafe to go back inside. instead, you have this row of containers, one for every classroom that would have been where people are going in and casting their votes. there have been long queues here all day, a

live now to our middle east corrrespondent, anna foster, from antakya.city is yet to recover from an earthquake. it it is one of the city is yet to recover from an earthquake. it is. the devastation _ recover from an earthquake. it is. the devastation still— recover from an earthquake. it is. the devastation still here - recover from an earthquake. it 3 the devastation still here after that earthquake on the 6th of february is extraordinary. while city blocks are raised to the ground under real quietness in the streets. this has been, in many ways, a ghost town until today because thousands of people have had to come back here to vote in the election. hundreds of thousands fled the area altogether because so many of these buildings including this polling station, this building behind me as a school, it is where people have normally been voting and you can see the roof has slipped half off and it is too damaged to go inside so instead they have set up these containers where people have been voting today. people who have travelled right around the country.

i�*m anna foster in antakya, where president erdogan, and his challengers are facing their biggest test

our middle east corrrespondent, anna foster, from antakya — she's been visiting a hub where thousandsheir votes. and i spoke to her a little earlier. this is one of the places they come to next from the get of the buses. in turkey, people vote in schools. this can see are so badly damaged it is not safe to go back inside. is not safe to go back inside. instead, you have this whole row of containers, one for every classroom that would normally have been where people go in and cast their votes. there have been long queues here all day, a steady stream of people who have been coming back to this earthquake area to cast their votes because if they didn't register in the parts of turkey that they are now, they had to come back here. this is one of the most pivotal elections in years. in the last few days have been trying to get a sense of the issues, the things that have beenin of the issues, the things that have been in people's minds when they cast the votes. the earthquake is one of them, the economy another big one. here is what some voters had to say when i spoke to them in the city o

i'm anna foster — live in antakya — where the fate of president erdogan will soon be decided.re than 200 kph. president zelensky thanks germany for its �*fantastic solidarity�*, on his first visit to the country since russia invaded ukraine. and — could some eu citizens get a vote in british elections? the opposition labour party says it may consider the idea.

our middle east corrrespondent, anna foster, is in antakya — she�*s been visiting a hub where thousandse to next, when they get off the buses. here in turkey, people vote in schools. this one that you can see is so badly damaged that it is not even safe to go back inside. instead, you have this whole row of containers, one for every classroom, that would have normally been where people were going in and casting their vote. there have been long queues here all day, a steady stream of people. they have been coming back to this earthquake area to cast their votes, because if they didn�*t register in the parts of turkey that they are in now, they had to come back here in order to cast their vote, in what you rightly say is one of the most pivotal elections here in years. in the last few days i�*ve been really trying to get a sense of the issues, the things that are going to be on people�*s minds when they cast their vote. the earthquake is one of them, the economy, of course, is another big one. here is what some voters had to say when i talk to them in the city of adana. translation: i hop

our middle east corrrespondent, anna foster, is in antakya. allah has sent us this report.reds of thousands of people probably had to leave the area after the earthquake back in february and they had to come back here to cast their votes today. —— anna. there are just behind the camera at least 100 buses that have been arriving here all morning discharging passengers who then are dealt with in these tents, people with big sheets of paper and pens, people telling them where to go and putting them on smaller buses to get them to the local area for a they must vote and if we look behind me all these apartment buildings you might see the damage in the roofs, these are empty, nobody lives here now and it gives you an idea of the difficulty of voting in the selection for people in this part of the country, millions of people desperate to have a say in the future of turkey who have experienced devastation in the last few months but have to go through so much today. one woman i spoke to came 18 hours on the bus from istanbul in order to build and it gives you an idea of the difficu

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our senior international correspondent orla guerin reports now from the ancient city of antakya — incial death toll is more than 20,000. how cani how can i forget you, she says, to her son beneath the soil? her grandson comes to comfort her. she cradled the little boy under the rubble for eight hours. your father is lying here, she tells him. she blames president erdogan for the four loved ones she lost. do you think he will still be president after the election? translation: i hope to god he won't. what i want from the ballot box is his dead body. our souls have been ripped away. hejust brings harm. it body. our souls have been ripped away. he just brings harm. away. he “ust brings harm. it wasn't onl the away. he just brings harm. it wasn't only the earthquakes _ away. he just brings harm. it wasn't only the earthquakes that _ away. he just brings harm. it wasn't only the earthquakes that killed - only the earthquakes that killed here. many buildings were death traps. under erdogan they have been repeated amnesties for illegal construction, developers just repeated amnesties for il

time has yet to heal the wounds of the broken city of antakya and its people. life amid the ruins a mere existence in this deserted town where elections and campaign promises are overshadowed by despair. grief and pain still so raw for those who survived, left only to mourn. she lost her mother, father, sister, brother, little nieces and the hardest loss of all, her only child. >> this is the last photo. >> reporter: little alan had just turned 6. hes with with his cousins for a sleepover when the earthquake hit. she and her husband dug through the rubble with their bare hands. the three longest days of their life ended when an italian search and rescue team recovered the lifeless bodies of their boy and the rest of their family. >> translator: they killed them all. >> reporter: the couple like thousands of others blame their tragedy on the state's initial chaotic slow response and on shoddy construction and government amnesties for contractors who violated building codes. on sunday they'll take their anger to the ballot box. "over the years they stole our futu