A hospitalized mother was miraculously reunited with her baby nearly two months after a devastating earthquake ripped through southern Turkey and parts of Syria.
Named Vetin, but also called the “miracle baby,” the three-and-a-half-month-old was rescued from the rubble of a building in Hatay province more than five days after the Feb. 6 quake, according to a statement from the Turkish Ministry.
The minister handed her over to her mother Yasemin Begdas in a hospital in the city of Adana 54 days after the disaster, in addition to not reporting any health problems, according to the Reuters agency.
“Reuniting a mother and her child is one of the most precious tasks in the world,” said Family and Social Services Minister Derya Yanik.
After initially being treated in a hospital in Adana, the baby had been transferred on the presidential plane to be treated by the Ankara authorities.
A DNA test revealed that Yasemin was her mother and the baby was flown back to Adana, where the meeting took place at the hospital caring for her.
It should be remembered that more than 56,000 people died from the earthquake on February 6 and subsequent tremors, 50,000 of them in Turkey and the rest in Syria.
The baby’s father and two brothers died in the quake, according to a ministry statement obtained by the aforementioned agency.
The miraculous meeting came after Turkey announced the arrest of 184 people for collapsing buildings in the earthquakes, while Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Saturday that more than 600 people had been investigated.
Those arrested include construction contractors, building managers, owners and people who underwent renovations.
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