Hakan Soydas woke up to his wife's screams in the early morning hours of 6 February. Their apartment, in the southern Turkish city of Hatay, was shaking.
"I saw my home collapsing, the pillars falling down," says the World Food Programme (WFP) driver.
He rushed to rescue his 85-year-old mother-in-law from a room nearby. Together with Soydas's teenage daughter, the family fled the building, after he broke the door down the door with a crowbar.
A massive, 7.8-magnitude earthquake had hit. They were lucky to be alive.
In February, the Türkiye-Syria earthquakes killed at least 53,000 people, hospitalizing tens of thousands. Millions more are displaced, many surviving the bitter cold in tents or with friends and relatives. Cities are in rubble and roads are buckled by the upheavals.
Among the millions affected are WFP staff in both countries. Soydas still chokes up talking about a WFP friend who died in the disaster: Levent Kucukaslan, 41, was a senior logistics associate working with the Syria Logistics Cluster in support of WFP's northwest Syria operations, having joined the organization in 2015.
