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World - Europe

Emotional scars run deep for young survivors of Turkey quake

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CNN's Walter Rodgers reports on the attempts to return a sense of normalcy to the lives of children affected by the earthquake in Turkey.
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'We're dying!'

August 30, 1999
Web posted at: 10:50 p.m. EDT (0250 GMT)

YALOVA, Turkey (CNN) -- Two weeks after a disastrous earthquake leveled thousands of buildings and killed more than 14,000 people in Turkey's northeast, many residents, especially children, still struggle to endure deep emotional scars.

CNN's Walter Rodgers travels to the hard-hit Turkish town of Yalova, where traumatized young survivors continue to relive the horror of the night their hometown collapsed around them.



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