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The tents of refuge are not just a prophetic metaphor, but a political reality for millions of people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Arie Amaya-Akkermans<\/h4>\n

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The first Biblical reference to tents appears early in the narrative of the Book of Genesis, concerning a man known as Jabal, of whom it was said that he was the father of those who dwell in tents (Gen 4:20). But life in tents is held in high regard throughout scripture and tent-dwelling symbolizes the condition of God\u2019s people; they were wanderers, awaiting the time when a permanent city will be established \u2014 a heavenly home. The patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob lived in tents most of their lives, and the Children of Israel lived in tents during forty years in the wilderness. For several years, after entering the Promised Land, the people of Israel still lived in tents, and they even had a tabernacle that functioned like a portable temple, as they wandered in the wilderness.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s no such thing as lands promised, unless they\u2019re taken violently. The tents that now adorn the modern Levant have little to do with Biblical prophets as they were described in the past in monographs<\/a> about Bedouin culture in Palestine and the Transjordan; these tent cities have been manufactured by displacement. It\u2019s not just the plight of Palestinians, displaced from their own ancestral home, languishing since many years in refugee camps in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, as well as living in abject poverty on the tiny archipelago that is now the Palestinian territories under Israeli control, but also the countless refugees created by other conflicts since then: political violence in Turkey since 1976 and the Kurdish struggle, the Gulf War, the invasion of Iraq, the Hezbollah-Israel War in Lebanon in 2006, the ongoing civil war in Syria since 2011, the insurgency of the Islamic state in Iraq since 2017, and so on.<\/p>\n

The promise of a heavenly home in exchange for tents on earth appears as early as Saint Augustine, in the Tractates on the Gospel of John<\/a>, going back to the 5th century, where he preaches that \u201cThis world is for the faithful, who do not love the world, what the desert was for the people of Israel\u201d and that \u201cAt the present time, then, before we come to the land of promise, namely thy eternal kingdom, we are in the desert and live in tents.\u201d Studying this passage, in the years following World War I, Hannah Arendt remarks<\/a>: \u201cWould it not be better to love the world and be at home? Why should we make a desert out of this world?\u201d Her response is a reminder that the tents of refuge are not just a prophetic metaphor, but a political reality for millions of people.<\/p>\n

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A dozen cities lie completely destroyed and it will be necessary to rebuild entire provinces from scratch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the early morning of February 6, 2023, two devastating earthquakes literally shook the earth in Turkey and Syria, encompassing an area so vast as to comprise everything between Diyarbakir and Hatay, Adana and Idlib. The seismic movements caused devastation so massive that even a month later, it hasn\u2019t been possible to establish the true extent of the disaster, or to tally up the number of dead. Official statistics are misleading, considering how many remain unaccounted for, and international organizations in the field are working with numbers so large that they fail to make sense in the human imagination. The facts are sobering: A dozen cities lie completely destroyed and it will be necessary to rebuild entire provinces from scratch.<\/p>\n

As the first earthquake hit, people fled the safety of their homes \u2014 those who could \u2014 and have not been able to return. It\u2019s uncertain that they ever will. Not only entire neighborhoods were wiped out by the natural disaster, but many more will have to be demolished and rebuilt. The first hours in the aftermath were enveloped by total chaos, and the details are blurry. But we know that many people congregated in public squares and used their cars as mobile homes, and tried to set up tents for themselves in the vicinity of their houses. With each passing day, the hope for normalcy began to evaporate, and tent cities began to appear all over the region. At the site of Expo Hatay, on the outskirts of Antakya, a venue for trade fairs and events, now international organizations have clustered up, surrounded by the iconic white tents of refugee camps all over the world.<\/p>\n

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Ruins of Samanda\u011f, (courtesy Ari Amaya-Akkermans).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But the tents have also been mired in stories of corruption and mismanagement. Not only have they been difficult to obtain, at the height of winter, but also in many cases, they have been seized by the authorities trying to completely monopolize aid efforts, tents were also sold by aid organizations to one another, and prices are soaring. In most cases, they have to be secured privately. In order to not lose these difficult to acquire tents to corruption, people in the know who want to help their family or friends, have to identify a recipient in advance and send the tents as a cargo purchase to be \u00a0delivered door to door, even though the addresses might no longer exist. Life in these tent cities is more than precarious; without running water, an official connection to the electricity grid, or any standards of safety, the tents are also another tragedy in the making, as people are using gas stoves for heating and cooking. What could go wrong? As of this writing, there\u2019s a grave shortage of drinking water in the provinces of Hatay and Adiyaman.<\/p>\n

In the past week a new development: \u00a0Police approached people who had installed their tents in a carpark in Defne, a district of Hatay, with a warning to evacuate the area and move to tent cities built by the state. People complained bitterly, for they\u2019re receiving food and aid in their tents near their places of residence, provided by international organizations or other municipalities \u2014 to the central government\u2019s chagrin, and in a harrowing video from Defne circulating online<\/a>, a woman can be heard in the background asking a policeman, where were you when we were under the rubble?<\/p>\n

A similar warning from the authorities was issued for Samanda\u011f, where people in the city center have installed tents around Yeni Park, with the aggravation that the tent city built by the government in Samanda\u011f was installed in a stadium by the seaside in Meydan K\u00f6y\u00fc, completely exposed to the elements, at the height of winter, and with the prospect of a tsunami warning issued on the night of February 20.<\/p>\n

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Yeni Park, Samanda\u011f, (photo courtesy Baris Yapar).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the very night of that day, February 20, \u00a0we were visiting the priest Abdullah Yumurta at St. Ilyas Church, which had survived the earthquake with minor damages and since then, had become a soup kitchen and an aid relief center. Electricity had returned as we chatted amicably with the priest while sipping tea and watched a batch of French fries being cooked in an enormous pan heated on an industrial stove (all of this seemed such luxury). My companion, human rights activist Caoimhe Butterly, asked Yumurta permission to visit the chapel, which goes back to an early Christian shrine in the 5th century CE but built sometime in the 1870s, and restored after different earthquakes rocked the region at the end of the 19th century. The church was more or less intact, and the exquisite wood panels near the altar untouched, although there clearly was debris from the first earthquakes behind the iconostasis.<\/p>\n

Five minutes later, after we had just left the church, the February 20 earthquake began, and the already damaged front wall of the church yard collapsed right behind us. We drove nervously in the dark back to the tents of Yeni Park, with the fear of collapsing structures blocking the road, at the sight of confused people, escaping from buildings they shouldn\u2019t have gone back into, hoping that some help would come from somewhere. The next day we learnt that the church had been finally destroyed; St. Ilyas is now part of the long list of destroyed churches, seeking funds to rebuild. The demolition order sent for St. Georgios\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Church in Alt\u0131n\u00f6z\u00fc, dating back to the 7th century, because it is not officially registered as a historical building, due to the complex politics of minorities in the region, is making observers nervous about the restoration of these churches. The demolition order was rescinded after a public outcry online.<\/p>\n

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Iconostasis of St. Ilyas Church, before it was destroyed on February 20, (courtesy Ari Amaya-Akkermans).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The life in tents reminds us that the feeling of security does not really come from the buildings we dwell in, but from the intricate web of human relationships around them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As we drove away from the church, in silence, you could hear the frightening roar of the crumbling infrastructure around us, like a loud rattle, and we awoke in the morning to newly collapsed buildings. Although there\u2019s a giant cluster of aid organizations and official bodies, as close as 30 minutes from Samanda\u011f, no presence of the state was felt until a whole 12 hours later, when the police appeared in the town to inspect the damage. In hindsight, it is impossible to grasp what the people in this region felt during the morning of the February 6 earthquake, far longer and stronger than the one we experienced. Back at the tents, volunteers passed water and crackers, people were asked to congregate at the center of the square, and slowly half-normalcy returned as people drifted into sleep, and tremors continued through the night.<\/p>\n

The life in tents of course reminds us that the feeling of security does not really come from the buildings we dwell in, but from the intricate web of human relationships around them. After the last earthquake, people at the square also tried to find each other, and felt their absence strongly; including the seven sisters who for days had been sleeping on chairs and covered only in blankets. The tent city in fact, resembles the history of Samanda\u011f: Its foundations are never solid, its construction has never been completed, but it\u2019s safe enough for temporary survival. The ancient St. Symeon, port of the Frankish principality of Antioch (in the 12th century CE), has changed hands many times, and was the site of different migrations and displacements, from Saint Simeon Stylites the Younger, to the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, to the Seljuk general Afshin ibn Bakji Bey.<\/p>\n

In modern times, the area was known as Svediye, where six Armenian villages were located until most of them emigrated to Lebanon in 1939, after the region was annexed by Turkey. The city was built in patches, without following any kind of logic, mostly illegal constructions, stacked alongside one another in awkward shapeless blocks, without any kind of urban planning or zoning rules; some modern buildings near the center seem to be made of more durable materials, but many houses in the region were built using cheap materials such as sand and wood. The lack of attention to urban planning isn\u2019t a mistake of omission but policy; within the same province, the scope of infrastructure projects varies greatly between districts that either support the state party, or are considered ethnically homogenous by the government, and those inhabited by more diverse populations.<\/p>\n

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The crisis is already unfolding: Landlords in the earthquake region demand rent be paid for houses that are no longer inhabitable; mass arrivals in many cities search for housing; and many property owners in Ankara and Istanbul refuse to lease apartments to \u201crefugees\u201d from the earthquake region.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A friend writes to us in a letter penned after the earthquake reminiscing of the town\u2019s spontaneous plurality: \u201cI grew up hearing stories of how Orthodox Greeks from Samanda\u011f saved us Alawites and claimed us as members of their family during the French mandate so that we wouldn\u2019t sent away, only to return to the same church to receive food, and give them whatever I had, for them to distribute. I realized how beautiful, pure, innocent we were in our little, poorly planned and constructed town, like the way tents and cars are placed now \u2014 by individuals and the solidarity of our people to survive.\u201d Both the Alawites that now make up the majority of Samanda\u011f\u2019s population, as well as the Armenians in the past, suffered persecution under the Ottomans, but also under the Turkish republic, from the Massacre of Telal in Aleppo in 1517 to the military excursion of the Turkish army in Iskenderun in 1938 to expel all the Arab and Armenian population.<\/p>\n

In my mind, these tents in Samanda\u011f and elsewhere in Turkey now represent a dual metaphor for the newly displaced population: On the one hand, they stand for the resilience of life in the face of disaster, and the possibilities afforded by a moment of transformation where things are still in flux and radical changes are imaginable. Of course, on the other hand, it also stands for an architecture of the impermanence of life in a heavily authoritarian state that is likely to remain crippled for years to come, unable to handle the impending homelessness crisis that will affect millions of people. In fact, the crisis is already unfolding: Landlords in the earthquake region demand rent be paid for houses that are no longer inhabitable; mass arrivals in many cities search for housing; and many property owners in Ankara and Istanbul refuse to lease apartments to \u201crefugees\u201d from the earthquake region.<\/p>\n

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Ruins of Samanda\u011f, courtesy (Arie Amaya-Akkermans).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In fact, as a personal experience, our displacement is two-fold: First, we lost our house in the small town of \u00c7evlik, a suburb of Samanda\u011f, after it collapsed during the earthquake. Then, we\u2019re also leaving Istanbul, possibly for Izmir, unable to cope with the completely overinflated rent prices, comparable to European capitals, and exhausted from a ruthless economic reality where the minimum wage is below the starvation line and current prices require three salaries just to cover rent. But we\u2019re also relatively lucky considering the circumstances, and with a minimum amount of savings and help from friends, we will be able to have a fresh start, and perhaps think of leaving the country at some point. This cannot be said about the majority of people who are now in the tents or even waiting to receive a tent to begin with. What will happen when they\u2019re forced into the tent cities?<\/p>\n

In their book Lande: the Calais \u2018Jungle\u2019 and Beyond<\/em><\/a>, that looks at a refugee camp in the north of France, archaeologists Dan Hicks and Sara Mallet talked about the \u201ctemporarization of temporality\u201d that occurs within a refugee camp: People become displaced not only from places but also from the reach of institutions, from technology and from time itself, and they\u2019re condemned to lead an existence in which everything is for them temporary and outside the cultural institutions of modernity: \u201cThe temporary becomes a space for politics, a time destroyed so quickly that it is perhaps even shorter than the ev\u00e9n\u00e9ment.\u201d<\/p>\n

This expulsion from time is a gesture not unlike that of closed migration borders and the role of colonial museums \u201csafeguarding\u201d artifacts. What we can see here is the larger framework of homelessness as a political question in the contemporary world, and the crucial juncture in which it becomes an ontological condition, rather than a situation to be overcome. Hicks and Mallet in fact warn us that these places of \u201cself-organized refuge,\u201d with impermanent architecture, are the prototype of a \u201cnew kind of world city,\u201d in which nearly a third of the world\u2019s population will be living in by 2030 \u2014 the precarious city.<\/p>\n

I surely hope that the people at Yeni Park, in Samanda\u011f, will be able to return home one day, but I\u2019m not optimistic, and perhaps another patchy, completely irregular and just as unsafe Samanda\u011f will be built on top of the old one that now has been destroyed. Another possibility is that people will become permanently displaced, and that they will simply get tired of waiting and go into exile, possibly forever. I think now about the story of Ezra Cenudio\u011flu, the last Jew of Antakya<\/a>, after the death of his brother Saul and his wife Fortuna, leaders of the tiny local Jewish community, when he was donning tefillin in the streets of Antakya and telling Gilad Nir, \u201cThat\u2019s it. I\u2019m the last Jew in Antakya and I\u2019m leaving. The community is finished. Nobody will ever come back here. We were here from 300 BCE till this day and it\u2019s over. I\u2019m the last to put on tefillin here.\u201d Antioch was one of the centers of Hellenistic Judaism at the end of the Second Temple period. Jews had been living in the city ever since then, countering the idea of Western archaeologists that the city was completely ruined and abandoned after a number of earthquakes rocked it in the 6th century CE.<\/p>\n

Ezra Cenudio\u011flu\u2019s painful farewell to Antakya, together with the sight of the tents at Yeni Park, reminds me of the \u201cMa Tovu\u201d Hebrew prayer that is said by Jews upon entering the synagogue or in certain festivals, expressing reverence and awe for the synagogue \u2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 something that Antakya no longer has, starting with a verse from the Book of Numbers, where Balaam is sent to curse the Israelites, and is instead overcome with awe at their dwelling in tents and their house of worship (and other lines from the Book of Psalms):<\/p>\n

Ma tovu ohalekha Ya\u2019akov, mishk\u2019notekha Yisra\u2019el.
\nVa\u2019ani b\u2019rov hasd\u2019kha, avo veytekha,
\nEshtahaveh el heikhal kodsh\u2019kha b\u2019yir\u2019atekha.
\nAdonai, ahavti m\u2019on beitecha um\u2019kom mishkan k\u2019vodekha.<\/p>\n

(\u201cHow lovely are your tents, O Jacob, Your dwelling-places, O Israel!
\nAs for me, through Your abundant grace,
\nI enter your house to worship with awe in Your sacred place.
\nO Lord, I love the House where you dwell, and the place where your glory tabernacles.\u201d)<\/p>\n

I wonder if the Ma Tovu will be said again in Antakya? The tents however are here to remain. The disorganized tent assembly of Yeni Park, with its pots and chairs and fireplaces, speaks \u00a0not only of the pain people have endured in this indescribable tragedy \u2014 it\u2019s as if they\u2019ve gone through death and returned \u2014 but it also refers to the possibility of solidarity and generosity in times of crisis, which is in itself a way of envisioning a newer, different political reality. The fact of homelessness on this scale, dealing with millions of people, however, cannot be tackled through mere hope or good will; it will require major political decisions that will involve international actors and funds. Or are they really going to allow a dozen million people to become permanently displaced? I wish we didn\u2019t have to think about the answer to this question. The reality that we have to confront is that what we\u2019re dealing with here are not rational actors who have simply mismanaged a situation or performed poorly. What we\u2019re staring at here is the gaze of evil. Plain and simple.<\/p>\n

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