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Adem Altan
Adem Altan is a photographer based in AFP's Ankara bureau
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Turkey quake: a father’s pain

Thursday 9 February 2023
 

This is the story of the AFP photograph that caught the unbearable pain of the Turkish earthquake –  a father holding the hand of his dead daughter as she lay crushed in the rubble. A month on from the catastrophe, we caught up with Mesut Hancer and his grieving family

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