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Antakya, Turkey \- “Impossible, how could I pay the mortgage with my monthly salary of 600 euros?” Mesut Zateroglu, 43, tells The New Arab, sitting in a tent that his employer, the Hatay municipality, permitted him to erect in the courtyard of one of its office buildings by a major highway leading to the centre of the city of Antakya. Before two twin earthquakes destroyed the city on 6 February last year, Zateroglu used to live with his mother, brother, and sister in a flat in the neighbourhood of Armutlu, a few minutes drive from the city centre. Now, all three live in one of the container ca…