‘No one can bring back what we lost’: fears rise among poor in Turkish city ravaged by earthquakes

Less well-off residents in the southern city of Antakya feel left out of the city's rebuilding efforts

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Rows of bright white marble gravestones dot a hillside on the outskirts of Antakya, some bearing the words martyr of the earthquake". The final resting place for the city's dead will soon be overshadowed by tower blocks for those who survived. Bright yellow cranes jut into the skyline on the next hillside, slowly birthing a cluster of concrete skeletons, new government housing for some of the hundreds of thousands who lost their homes when deadly earthquakes struck southern Turkey and northern Syria last February.

No one can bring back what was lost, as we lost everything," said sa Akbaba, who lost seven members of his extended family along with his home.