Three weeks after the earthquake, Turkey looks stunned – even President Erdoğan can hardly find the words. Impressions of a mass grave in Kahramanmaraş, where burial has long since become routine.
Most of the time you can hear the noise of the excavators, sometimes a scream. First a whimper, then the voice clears. There kneels, a few rows of graves further, an elderly woman, she calls: “My children!” A second passes, then her voice again. “Bury me.”