15 houses, only three survivors – the community lost itself under a Turkish block of flats

Ceyda’s block of flats called Orcan stood in a row of medium-rise pink and beige buildings with small balconies in the center of Iskenderun, all with shops on the ground floor. When the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck at 4:17 a.m. Monday, Ceyda would have been sleeping with the other residents of Orcan.