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Antakya is home to two millenia’s worth of heritage and history, much of it now lying in ruins since the February 6 earthquake that devastated southern Turkey and Syria. Conservationists are calling on the Turkish government to do more to preserve what remains of the city's histori sites.
Victims express scepticism over President Erdogan's pledge to rebuild the entire disaster zone by the start of next year.
Places of worship were damaged by the recent deadly earthquakes in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, including the Saint Joseph's church in the town of al-Qanayyah and the only mosque in the village of al-Maland.
Aerial shots show the destruction wrought in Antakya by the catastrophic 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Fourteen centuries of history crumbled in less than two minutes in Antakya, a fabled ancient Greek centre known throughout most of its history as Antioch.
Aerial images of destroyed buildings in the Turkish city of Antakya in the aftermath of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has admitted for the first time that his government's search and rescue effort from this week's devastating earthquake was not going as quickly as hoped. IMAGES
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