Train carriages, volleyball courts and public roads - families now find shelter wherever they can.
By Anna FosterSongul Yucesoy carefully washes her dishes, soaping the plates and cutlery before rinsing off the bubbles and laying them out to dry. An unremarkable scene, except she's outdoors, sitting in the shadow of her ruined house.
The Turkish disaster agency Afad, meanwhile, says almost two million people have now left the quake zone. Some are living with friends or loved ones elsewhere in the country. Flights and trains out of the region are free to those who want to leave. It's been an agonising month for Songul. Seventeen of their relatives were killed in the quake. Her sister Tulay is officially missing. "We don't know if she is still under the rubble," she tells me. "We don't know whether her body was taken out yet or not. We're waiting. We can't start mourning. We can't even find our lost one.
The homelessness crisis created by the quake is so acute because of the real shortage of safe spaces that are left standing. More than 160,000 buildings collapsed or were badly damaged. The United Nations Development Programme estimates at least 1.5 million people are still inside the quake zone, but with nowhere to live. It's hard to know the real figure, and it could be far higher.
Songul's children are struggling, too. Toys and games are stuck inside dangerous houses, and there's no school. "They're bored, there's nothing to keep them busy. They just sit around. They play with their phones, then go to bed early once they run out of charge."
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