Mom and Child Reunited in Turkey Practically Two Months After Earthquake

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A mom has been reunited together with her child in southern Turkey after a DNA take a look at confirmed it was her daughter, virtually two months after a devastating earthquake ripped via the area, the nation’s household ministry mentioned.

The three-and-a-half-month outdated “miracle child”, known as Vetin, was pulled out of the rubble of a constructing within the province of Hatay greater than 5 days after the Feb. 6 quake with no well being issues, a ministry assertion mentioned.

The minister handed her over to her mom Yasemin Begdas at a hospital within the metropolis of Adana 54 days after the catastrophe.

“Reuniting a mom and her baby is likely one of the most valuable duties on the earth,” Minister of Household and Social Companies Derya Yanik was quoted as saying.

After initially being cared for at a hospital in Adana, the child had been taken by the presidential aircraft to be cared for by authorities in Ankara.

A DNA take a look at revealed that Yasemin was her mom and the child was flown again to Adana, the place the reunion passed off on the hospital treating her.

Greater than 56,000 folks have been killed by the Feb. 6 earthquake and subsequent tremors, with 50,000 of these in Turkey and the rest in Syria.

The child’s father and two brothers died within the quake, the ministry assertion mentioned.

(Reporting by Daren Butler; Enhancing by Jonathan Spicer and Ed Osmond)

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