Destruction and destruction, this is how the scene appeared in the Turkish city of Kahramanmaraş, a month after the devastating earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria and turned it into a ghost town, according to the description of the French magazine Le Point.
A video clip from the air showed how the city's buildings were destroyed, homes were destroyed, streets were damaged, and all aspects of life were absent, and while rubble spread all over the city, the city was almost devoid of movement.
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On the sixth of last February, two earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 struck southern Turkey and northern Syria, followed by thousands of aftershocks, some of which were of medium intensity.
The disaster, which centered on the state of Kahramanmaraş, claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people and affected millions, and left huge material damage in 11 Turkish states.
The Kahramanmaraş earthquake destroyed thousands of buildings and left tens of thousands of victims (Getty Images)
A large number of Syrian refugees live in the southern states of Turkey, which witnessed great damage as a result of the earthquake, due to their proximity to their country, which explains the high number of victims among them in Turkey, in addition to the victims in Syria.
A few days ago, Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soilo announced that the death toll, following the major earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northwestern Syria, had risen to 45,986 people in Turkey alone.
Adding the latest announced number of earthquake victims in Syria - 5,914 dead - brings the total death toll in the two countries to nearly 52,000.