Syria: Life after the earthquake

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Last month’s devastating earthquake didn’t just claim thousands of Turkish lives, it ravaged northern Syria as well. International help for that region has struggled to get through. In this episode of Business Daily Ed Butler looks at how the region is battling to pick up the pieces, and whether local business-people are helping or simply profiting from the crisis.

Amnat Soueif, a mother of two, tells Ed how she's providing for her children. Elizabeth Tsurkov, a senior fellow at the New Lines Institute, tells us about conversations she's having with families in the region about their trauma.

Abu Amer runs a vegetable stall in the Idlib area - he tells us how commodity prices have been affected by the earthquake and Bassam Abu Muhammad, a blacksmith, tells us that since the earthquake he's moved into making and selling tents.

Presenter / producer: Ed Butler Image: A displaced Syrian child; Credit: Getty images

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0:26.8	Hi there, I'm Ed Butler.
0:28.4	You're listening to Business Daily here on the BBC World Service.
0:32.2	Coming up today, last month's devastating earthquake didn't just claim thousands of lives in Turkey. It also ravaged
0:39.9	northern Syria as well. And international help for that region has struggled to get through.
0:45.4	You have five million people that are heavily dependent on aid cross border from Turkey. And I think
0:52.9	in this case, they failed northwest Syria.
0:55.6	One month after the disaster, we're looking at how northern Syria is battling to pick up
1:00.4	the pieces and what local businesses are doing to help or to profit from the crisis.
1:06.8	At the time of the earthquake, people had to buy tents.
1:13.5	And the demand for them was so great.
1:15.2	We can't help everyone.
1:18.1	Whoever can help, let them help.
1:20.7	Syria's earthquake one month on.
1:22.5	Business Daily from the BBC. Idlib in Syria. It's the main city of a rebel-held enclave in the country's northwest.
1:35.6	Nearly a quarter of the country's 20 million inhabitants live here.
1:40.5	Four weeks after the devastating earthquake, the biggest in a century, reckon, people are still chatting, their building and they're trading.
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