Syria's war shattered their lives, Turkey's quake crushed their hopes

FILE PHOTO-Douaa Idris, who fled Syria with her husband and two children after surviving a chemical weapons attack in 2017, gestures as she speaks during an interview with Reuters in Gaziantep,Turkey, February 14, 2023. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

GAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) - After surviving a chemical attack in Syria, Douaa Idris, her husband and two children fled across the border to southern Turkey where they painstakingly rebuilt their lives as refugees.

"We were born again," said Idris, 32, who put down roots in the city of Gaziantep alongside 450,000 Syrians escaping the conflict that has ravaged their homeland.