The earthquake in February led the Turkish government to grant Syrian refugees permission to leave the quake-hit provinces for 60 days.
hen a series of earthquakes killed thousands along the Turkish-Syrian border in February, many of the 3.6 million Syrian refugees who settled in Turkey after the beginning of the civil war returned to Syria.
Syrian actor Mohammad Hamza, 21, in Gaziantep, Turkey a few days before leaving the city and moving to Canada with his family, in April. The actor fled war-torn Aleppo and moved to Gaziantep in 2013, where he worked for a few years in a factory before starting acting at a local theater and later in large film productions. Not long after the earthquakes hit his adopted city, the family was granted refugee status in Canada.
“I wanted to focus on the positive aspects of forced migration that showed the resilience of these communities,” Cappellari explains.
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