{"id":5758,"date":"2023-02-21T05:50:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T05:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:20:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T14:20:45","slug":"old-image-of-a-man-with-bread-viral-as-a-visual-after-a-recent-earthquake-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/old-image-of-a-man-with-bread-viral-as-a-visual-after-a-recent-earthquake-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Two decade-old image of a man with bread viral as an incident after a recent earthquake in Turkey."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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After the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, many posts are being shared on social media. Meanwhile, a photo is going viral in which an older man is seen holding a few loaves of bread in front of a collapsed building. It was claimed that this picture was taken after the recent earthquake in Turkey.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Fact Crescendo found that although this photo is from an earthquake in Turkey, it is a 23-year-old photo. Therefore, it has nothing to do with the recent earthquake.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sharing this image, social media users claim, “Before the 75 seconds long earthquake in Turkey, the man in the image was the owner of 3 buildings, and now post-earthquake, he doesn’t even own 3 loaves of bread.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Google Reverse Image Search on the viral image led us to the same photo published on the Hurriyet Daily News<\/a> website. According to this report published on November 30, 2020, this image of an earthquake in Turkey’s Dujce region in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keeping the above information in mind, we searched on Google about the earthquake incident in Turkey in 1999 using various keywords. As a result, we found the same photo published on a website<\/a> on November 14, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As per reports, more than 400 people lost their lives in that earthquake. The information with the image says that an older man is standing and crying near a collapsed building after an earthquake.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From another website<\/a>, we learned that this photo was taken by a photographer named Abdurrahman Antakyali.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also found the Instagram profile<\/a> of this photographer. The photographer himself shared this image on November 12, 2014. It was also mentioned that the photo was taken after the Duzce earthquake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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