Baris Yapar, a 27-year-old psychology major whose two-storey family home proudly stands on the edge of Samandag’s main square, is living in the street: For seven days straight, he and his parents were sleeping in his father’s SUV just a few metres away from his home.

On Tuesday, he proudly showed to a Telegraph reporter a yellow tarpaulin tent, purchased and delivered by a relative in Germany, where the Yapars had the luxury to spend last night.

The family home, with a Mediterranean-style balcony lined with potted plants, is too dangerous to stay in.

Swathes of south-eastern Turkey and north-western Syria were hit by the earthquake last Tuesday that has killed at least 40,000 people and uprooted millions of the combined population of 15 million.


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