Man who couldn’t let go of his daughter lives in Ankara three weeks after the quake: “She slept like an angel”

He became the face of thousands of mourning Turks and Syrians after the earthquake: the desperate Mesut Hancer, with his orange coat among the rubble. Hand in hand with his deceased daughter Irmak. The image illustrated many front pages worldwide. Three weeks later he tells his story. “I also lost my mother, my brothers and my nephews in the earthquake. But burying your child is not comparable.”

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