On the night of Monday, February 6, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit the border area between Turkey and Syria.
The region, straddling three tectonic plates, is accustomed to this type of phenomenon.
The balance sheet continues to grow.
According to the latest count on February 10, more than 22,300 have died, including more than 3,000 victims in Syria.
Relief on the spot is helped by international reinforcements, but the crucial 72 hours to hope to find survivors have now passed.
The slowness of the intervention of the Turkish authorities is strongly criticized.
In Syria, the penalty is double since the disaster has affected partly rebellious regions, already ostracized by power and dependent on humanitarian aid.
This situation inspired the cartoonist Semih Poroy, who chose to apply a bandage to cover the wounds in the region affected by the earthquake.
Semih Poroy's first cartoons were published in 1975 in Akbaba (The Condor), Turkey's oldest humor magazine.
From 1977, he worked as a freelancer for the daily Cumhuriyet, of which he became the official cartoonist in 1988, notably publishing his comic strip Harbi.
He also draws a page of satire of the literary world entitled Feklavye, in the Literary supplement of Cumhuriyet for ten years.
He also publishes numerous articles on press cartoons and humor in cultural magazines and is the author of five albums (including the latest Feklavye and Ohne
Worte in 2008).
Semih Poroy was elected director of the Turkish Society of Cartoonists in 1984.
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