Yasemin Begdas and her young daughter were reunited almost two months after the February 6 earthquake in Turkey. According to the country’s Ministry of Family and Social Services, a DNA test confirmed paternity.
A three-and-a-half-month-old baby named Vetin was pulled from the rubble of a building in Hatay province, Turkey, five days after the quake.
The Minister of Family Affairs and Social Services handed her over to her mother, Yasemin Begdas, at a hospital in Adana, Turkey, 54 days after the disaster. “Bringing a mother and her child together is one of the most valuable tasks in the world,” said Minister Derya Yanik.
After initial treatment in Adana, the child was flown on a presidential plane for treatment at a hospital in Ankara. But once the DNA test confirmed that Yasemin was the child’s mother, the child was taken back to Adana, where he was handed over to the family. According to the Ministry of Family and Social Services, a father and two brothers died under the rubble of the earthquake.
DNA analysis showed that Yasemin was her mother and the child was taken back to Adana where the meeting took place at the hospital where she was being treated.
The earthquake and aftershocks on February 6 killed more than 56,000 people, 50,000 of them in Turkey and the rest in Syria.
Author: Philip Novais
Source: CM Jornal
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