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Government authorities brought the 3-month-old child named Vetin to her mother, Yasemin Begdas, at a hospital in Adana,Reuters reported.
A DNA test confirmed that Begdas — who was previously thought to be one of the tens of thousands who died in the quake and its aftermath,according to Al Jazeera— was the girl’s mother.
“Reuniting a mother and her child is one of the most precious tasks in the world,” Minister of Family and Social Services Derya Yanik said, per Reuters.
Vetin’s father and two siblings died in the quake, the ministry said in a statement, according to Reuters.
After the earthquake, the child was flown to Turkey’s capital Ankara on a presidential plane for care. This week, she made the trip back to Adana for the reunion with her mother.
Her recent journey wasdocumented in a videothat Yanik shared on social media Monday.
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More than 56,000 people were killed in the earthquake that rocked Turkey and Syria, according to Reuters. About 50,000 of those deaths were in Turkey.
“We can call it the disaster of the century,” Turkey’sPresident Recep Tayyip Erdoğan saidat a press conference in the days after the disaster.
To help ongoing earthquake relief efforts in Turkey and Syria, consider donating to these organizations:The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Doctors Without Borders,GlobalGiving, Save the Children, andThe Syrian American Medical Society.
source: people.com
