These are the words of Fevziye Tasar, 55, who is taking i around her makeshift house in the southern Turkish province of Hatay.
It is built from different parts of shipping containers and remnants of her old home, which collapsed into rubble during the earthquake which hit Turkey and Syria one year ago.
It is built from different parts of shipping containers and remnants of her old home, which collapsed into rubble during the earthquake which hit Turkey and Syria one year ago.
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00:00 This is all that remains of the Tazar family home in Hatay, southern Turkey.
00:06 The province, which borders Syria, was the worst affected by the earthquakes which struck the region one year ago,
00:13 killing more than 50,000 people.
00:16 The Tazar's home was one of hundreds of thousands of buildings destroyed in the disaster.
00:24 "Our house was completely wrecked. There's nothing left," 55-year-old Feziha tells me.
00:30 For the first few days, the family lived in a large greenhouse in their garden.
00:35 And after five months, they finished building a new makeshift house just a few metres away from the old one.
00:42 The roof was salvaged from the wreckage of their old home.
00:45 The other parts are made from shipping containers, which thousands of people are living in across southern Turkey,
00:51 having lost their homes in the disaster.
00:53 "Almost everybody who lives in this village has built a makeshift house like this," Feziha tells me.
00:59 And although the threat of another earthquake is always on her mind,
01:03 Feziha and her family want to stay in this village and rebuild their old home.
01:08 Her new makeshift house is not only a reminder of loss,
01:12 but a symbol of the resilience of the region in the face of unimaginable horror.
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