The village in Turkey that Barış Yapar once called home now feels like anything but.
Yapar is from Samandag in the southern province of Hatay — the region of Turkey that took the brunt of last year’s devastating and deadly earthquake.
Samandag is just outside the city of Antakya, a cultural gem in Turkey that is home to revered historic sites and people of diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds.
“Now it looks like a decayed land,” Yapar told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.
“[There’s] rubble that’s still not cleared out. The smell is still not gone. The water is still not clean. The more you
