Antiques seller in quake-wrecked Antakya vows to stay put in the historic Turkish city that has changed hands between ancient Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Ottomans in last 2,000 years
"God willing, we'll rebuild it," says Mehmet Serkan Sincan, who displays his wares on street, plays music for passersby and makes call to prayer five times, in the historic city destroyed several times in more than 2,000 years.
Almost all of the city's shops were closed and rows of buildings lay in heaps of rubble, but Mehmet Serkan Sincan, an antique trader who decided to stay put, laid out his wares on the street and played music for passersby — just as he did before the quakes struck. "Even before the earthquake, these chairs were outside, I had items outside to show that we run an antique shop ... This is normal, classic life for us ... So we have returned to normal," he said. "We're happy here."
The imams who used to make the Muslim call to prayer five times a day also left, Sincan said, prompting him to take on the sacred task himself.
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