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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

When an Earthquake Hits a Civil War

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

How getting recovery aid and assistance to Turkey and northern Syria has been complicated by on-going aftershocks from the earthquake and the reverberations of the Syrian civil war. Guests: Louisa Loveluck, Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post. Dr. Ahmad Dbais, Operations Director and Disaster Management Team Leader for UOSSM (Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations). If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ever since I got off the line with a medical worker named Ahmed Al-Dabias,

0:51.7

I can't stop thinking about just how long it's going to take Turkey and Syria to recover from the earthquakes have been suffering.

1:00.3

Ahmed lives in one of the hardest hit regions with his family.

1:04.6

And he's used to emergencies.

1:07.2

He helped build medical infrastructure in Syria during the war.

1:11.2

He was actually doing the same thing in Ukraine when the ground began to shake.

1:15.6

He found out what was going on because his 14 year old daughter, Nor, facetimeed him.

1:21.3

In a panic at 4 in the morning.

1:23.8

And she cracked Baba.

1:26.2

Ersa Quick and we are now out the home.

1:31.9

And the building moved now.

1:34.7

Look and she moved camera to the building and trees and some is moving.

1:43.9

So you saw the earthquake because it was a video call?

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