The i visited the site of the former luxury apartment building the Renaissance residence, where footballer Christian Atsu was killed.
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00:00 Behind me is what's left of the Renaissance residence. It was a luxury
00:05 tower block here in the city of Antakya and a year ago today it was one of
00:10 thousands of buildings which collapsed across Turkey and Syria.
00:15 An estimated 750 people died inside this building including footballer Christian
00:24 Atsu who spent most of his career in the English Premier League at clubs
00:28 including Newcastle, Everton and Chelsea. It took nearly two weeks for Atsu's
00:34 body to be recovered from the rubble before he was honoured with a state
00:38 funeral in his home country of Ghana. Tributes poured in from around the world
00:43 with his old club St. James's Park falling silent to remember him. Atsu was
00:49 one of more than 50,000 people who died in the earthquakes and left behind his
00:54 beloved wife Marie-Claire and three young children. It's hard to convey
00:59 actually the scale of the devastation that I can see here. I mean genuinely as
01:05 far as I can see there is rubble everywhere. You can see behind me the
01:11 remains of the Renaissance residence but there are so many other buildings too
01:16 which fell here killing thousands and thousands of people. Some buildings are
01:22 still standing but the damage is clear. Most of them are missing glass panes, a
01:27 lot of them have lost pillars or have got severe cracks and a lot of the
01:31 rubble is still shattered across the ground. It's clear also how much this is
01:37 still affecting the region. I mean how could it not? So many people died and
01:42 today being the anniversary there's lots of people attending the graveyard or
01:46 even coming here to the site of the devastation to mourn.