Mehmet Koc, 13, lays on a couch in the sitting room, in London, Britain, October 10, 2023. When a devastating earthquake struck Turkey in the early hours of Feb. 6, 2023, the five-storey building in Hatay where Mehmet lived collapsed, burying him in rubble and killing his older brother Emre, 14, and his mother Didem. Mehmet survived. But it took 76 hours before rescuers could pull him from the mound of concrete and twisted metal that remained of his home. Later in hospital, doctors determined that his legs were so badly crushed and injured, that both needed to be amputated just below the hip. Almost a year on, he lives in his father Hasan's small flat in Hackney, east London, where they are both grieving for their loved ones and gradually coming to terms with the tragedy. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
