Mehmet Koc, 12, is comforted by his maternal grandmother Emine Karalioglu, 63, in Mersin hospital after having the bandages on his amputated legs changed, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Mersin, Turkey, February 17 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, both needed to be amputated just below the hip. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
