During last week's tremor that rocked southeastern Turkey and northern Syria, killing more than 44,000, Jawir, his wife and two daughters sheltered in a cluster of orange trees that adjoins their property.
They survived unscathed but witnessed their neighbours falling from balconies.
"We have no hope. We have no work, no life, how could we return to live here?" Jawir said. "My heart aches. It's hard."
Though none of Jawir's family were hurt and their yellow and white plaster home escaped serious damage, they do not want to stay for fear it has been weakened.
"Coming back will depend on there being (public) services" in Antakya, he said as he twisted a ring on his dirt-caked hand.
Beyond those whose homes collapsed, millions of others across the region now face the dilemma of whether to risk re-entering their homes, wait for structural tests, or move elsewhere.
"It's been hard to pack up and leave. I've got lots of memories here," added Jawir, a builder. "My daughters were born here, we got married here."
Then, with help from his uncle Hadi, 63, he tied down the truck's bulging cargo with a chain and pink twine.
Jawir and his uncle then headed to the older man's home in Adana, a city three hours away by car that was spared the worst of the quake's destructive force.
- 'Waiting to see' -
All that remained of their life at 16 Degirmen Street was a broken toy and a sturdy pair of boots.
Jawir's neighbours were also packing up their lives in Antakya's Kislasaray neighbourhood and preparing to move on.
Adnan and his daughter Dilay were loading a pickup truck with large bags of clothes.
"We don't know what will become of this house, will it be destroyed, we don't know what will happen," said Adnan who declined to give their family name.
Like the Jawirs, they did not want to gamble on whether their apartment building's foundations had been weakened by the quake.
In their kitchen, 26-year-old Dilay's mother despaired at the broken glass and smashed jars strewn on the floor.
"I can't take anything from here," she said.
They were uninjured by the earthquake, having run outside in just their pyjamas, and will now move into a flat in Mersin, 270 kilometres (170 miles) away from Antakya on Turkey's Mediterranean coast.
A street away, a white car had been completely flattened by falling masonry and was surrounded by left-behind items -- a portrait of a man and a woman, a vinyl record, a potted plant.
A platform lift operator working in the city's north was quick to cash in on the disaster.
He told AFP he had upped his prices to $80 an hour to use the apparatus, capable of reaching a fifth floor window, in addition to billing $50 per mover and $50 for a truck.
"We put our prices up because of the danger," said the operator, who claimed to move six or seven apartments every day, as the platform descended loaded with a carpet, framed photographs and a hand mixer.
- 'We will clean up' -
In Antakya's old town, optician Cuneyt Eroglu, 45, sifted through the wreckage of his glasses shop.
"Mrs Hacer, if you see me, your lenses have arrived," he laughed as he threw into a cardboard box packages retrieved from the deep rubble that has enveloped his Ottoman-era stone storefront.
"We will clean up and continue living here," he said surrounded by twisted glasses paraphernalia including an Emporio Armani spectacles board and contact lens solution.
He said finding his secondary school certificate in the wreckage of one of his four stores had left him overjoyed.
Unlike other parts of the old town, the street in front of his shop has not yet been cleared of the vast quantity of rubble and twisted metal that engulfed much of the city.
Eroglu, whose family escaped the earthquake uninjured, is now staying in a tent in a village outside Antakya.
"Leaving is easy, staying is important," he said. "After this, I want to stay in this street for the rest of my life."
Barber tidies up in Turkey quake tent camp
Antakya, Turkey (AFP) Feb 20, 2023 -
Student Mohammed al-Hamo, who learned to cut hair to earn money in his spare time, never imagined he would put his skills on display in a tent camp for earthquake survivors.
But following the devastating tremor on February 6 that destroyed swathes of southeastern Turkey and northern Syria, 18-year-old Mohammed is offering open-air haircuts to his family and others displaced by the disaster.
"If anyone comes he will for sure give them a haircut," said his father Khaled with a proud smile as he waited for his turn in the barber's chair.
Mohammed first gave his brother a fade, carefully using a cut-throat razor to sculpt 19-year-old Sobhi's hairline.
"I didn't manage to rescue my equipment until now," said Mohammed who had successfully retrieved electric clippers, combs, scissors and shampoo from the wreckage of his destroyed home.
While the Hamo family said they still have relatives missing following the earthquake that killed almost 45,000 people, their immediate family escaped unhurt.
Khaled said that, beyond free haircuts, his two eldest sons had been volunteering to help others in the camp in a park in the southeastern Turkish city of Antakya.
- 'We keep moving' -
"Our moral code tells us to help people, so my sons do this... we don't wait for someone to tell us," said Khaled of the pair who had helped clean the camp and worked with the Red Crescent aid agency.
Millions of people across the region have been made homeless by the earthquake, with many forced into tented camps with limited sanitation and access to electricity and healthcare.
As Mohammed dusted down his brother and prepared to give his father a haircut and shave, his mother swept up hair nearby.
"It feels good to do good things to help others. I never imagined I'd do this when I learned to cut hair as I just did it for money to help the family," he said.
He then transformed his father's appearance, threading his eyebrows, tidying up his already short hair and leaving him clean shaven.
"Even in these difficult conditions, we keep moving," Khaled said, his family's clothes hanging to dry on a washing line behind him.
Mohammed said he was preparing to go to university soon but would transfer to an institution in the Turkish capital Ankara because of damage done to universities in the earthquake-hit region.
The Hamo family moved to Antakya in 2014 from Aleppo in Syria, fleeing their country's brutal civil war for Turkey like nearly four million of their compatriots.
"I started cleaning in a barber shop and then learned to cut hair from there," he said as children played with a ball nearby and tea brewed on a stove outside their tent.
"I prefer using scissors rather than electric shavers, it shows how skilled a hairdresser is."
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