'My wife and baby son are sleeping on the streets in Turkey'

A man is desperately fighting to get his family out of Turkey and to his home in Greater Manchester. The family, including his baby son, are being forced to ‘sleep on the street’ in disaster-struck Gaziantep as their house is crumbling following the major earthquakes and tremors.

“It’s my dad, mum, my wife, my two-month old son. We are Syrian refugees and we don’t have passports. My family is too scared to go back into their house, all the walls are cracked and crumbling,” Khaled Osman, who lives in Salford, told the Manchester Evening News.

“The aftershocks are still happening, shaking everything. They’re scared the house is going to come down. I’m so worried about them, everything is upside down over there.”

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“The cold weather and they’re having to sleep outside in the street,” continued Khaled. “They had been going to the mosque for shelter but they’ve spent 10 days outside in a park where all the homeless are gathering because all the buildings have crumbled.”

Khaled’s mother, brother, sister-in-law and their four children lived in the house next door to his own wife and children. They too have been sleeping on the street as they are scared to go back home, Khaled shares.

On Monday, another earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, two weeks after a disaster that killed around 45,000 people. UN officials have warned the number of people killed could exceed 50,000.

The British Government sent an international search and rescue team to Turkey in the early response to the disaster, and has increased support for the White Helmets volunteer organisation in war-torn Syria. Millions in aid have been donated from around