A couple of weeks ago, a girl named Havine Killich was getting ready for a volleyball tournament.

Our colleague Soonerasmusen says she was a rising star.

Havine Killich is this 12 year old girl who comes from a family of volleyball fanatics.

Her father was a former volleyball player and now a referee, her uncle, the same.

In videos of Havine playing, you can see her long ponytail swinging in her waist.

She races for the ball.

She's wearing jersey number two and she's fast.

Havine is from Cyprus, a small island nation in Mediterranean.

In early February, she and her teammates traveled from their hometown to a tournament in Turkey.

The team arrived just before two massive earthquakes would strike the region.

There's about 55 players all in all aged between 12 and 14,

school girls and school boys who came and stayed in this city in South Asian Turkey called Adiyahman.

The teams had coached book their stay at the Isis Hotel, which describes itself as Adiyahman's home away from home.

The day before they arrived, Havine and her teammates learned they'd have to be split up.

The Isis Hotel couldn't accommodate the whole team, so some of the kids stayed at another hotel, about two blocks away.

It seems like a pretty sort of insignificant decision to just change hotels,

but as it would turn out, it was a decision that would have extremely dramatic consequences for everyone involved.

Welcome to the journal, our show about money, business and power.

I'm Ryan Knutzen.

It's Tuesday, February 21st.

Coming up on the show, a youth volleyball team divided by a twist of fate

and how Turkey's building standards might have failed them.

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