Special envoy to Antakya
His back hurts.
There is also this foot, extracted from under the ruin of his building by pulling, and which looks “
like toast
”.
A year of sleeping under a canvas, on the floor, but it's the laundry that Gülsen Arza thinks of first.
“
Our leaders, of course, can hang their laundry indoors on beautiful drying racks
,” quips the young woman, whose layers of sweaters hide her body shape.
This winter, it was necessary to insulate the tent where she sleeps with her elderly parents, in the center of Antakya, in the south of Turkey.
Tarpaulins and insulated shopping bags did the trick, until torrents of rain fell, “
like in Brazil
”.
This is what life in the tropics must be like: with such humidity, nothing dries.
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