Turkey's Christian community holds first Easter service among ruins in quake-torn Hatay

Turkey's Christian community in the Hatay province on April 16 held the first Easter service more as a commemoration than a celebration after the Feb. 6-dated earthquakes. The participants jumped over the rubble to be able to enter the demolished Antioch Orthodox Church.

 Burcu Özkaya Günaydın / Gazete Duvar

On April 16, the Easter service was held in the garden of the demolished Antioch Orthodox Church in the southern Hatay province where the Feb. 6 earthquakes caused great destruction and many casualties. 

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