The southern Turkish province of Hatay has a large Arabic-speaking population. Beside the refugees who came in the past ten years, an ancient Syrian dialect is still spoken.

Some aspects of societal and institutional adaptation have emerged in Syria one year after the 6th of February 2023 earthquake. Lessons were learned from the natural disaster, and it contributed enhancing the resilience of local Syrian communities to natural risks in a world of climate change that signals more risks.

A year after a massive earthquake claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Syrians and Turks, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless or traumatised, Untold Stories relaunches its ‘Earthquake' dossier published in collaboration with Orient XXI

Syrian Artists turned towards creativity in the face of the February 6th earthquake catastrophe. The different ranges of themes they addressed show particularly the reality of the Syrian people prior to the natural disaster and their permanent struggle for survival.

Already having challenges to access assistance pre-earthquake – as Syrian children have fewer opportunities to be integrated into Turkish kindergartens – and with schools closed for several weeks in a row, Syrian mothers’ role as caregivers has become increasingly difficult. And it’ll have long-lasting consequences, especially on the psychological level for both the mothers and their young children.

At the time of the earthquake catastrophe, Syrians came again together. They crossed the conflict-made borders to help and support each other’s. Hate speech disappeared from the social media. Civil society organizations, born after the 2011’s uprising, prove once again to be more effective than States and international agencies.

By comparing the sense of loss that an earthquake in Southern Italy in 1980 and the destruction of the city of Homs by the conflict in Syria caused, the two authors explore what rebuilding homes means in the search to rebuild one's own community, after Turkey-Syria earthquake.

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