Harun counts his blessings everytime he thinks of the 2.45 a.m. phone call that woke him last Tuesday night.
A baker by profession, he's normally at work by 6 a.m. and has been an early riser all his life.
However, on the night in question he was woken even earlier than usual by a telephone call from a farming relative who was going on holiday and who wanted to know if Harun would be interested in some eggs he feared would spoil while he was away.
Despite the call being in the middle of the night, Harun thanked his cousin and said he would be out to collect the eggs that morning.
Little more than 15 minutes later, the earthquake that would leave Harun homeless and jobless hit Turkey. He is convinced that if he hadn't been awake when it struck, he, his wife and daughter would have perished.
A small closet full of clothes and shoes fell on his daughter and he recalls her crying out "Save me, father!" She relives the incident several times a day and is having severe difficulty getting over the trauma. Harun hopes some counselling will be available at her school when she returns in the winter.
Harun seems fascinated by the manner in which some of his neighbours died. He wonders if the ones who were found holding hands under the rubble died trying to save each other.
Other neighbours were injured or killed after returning to their structurally damage homes to retrieve possessions.
Sitting in the tent village he now calls home, Harun is happier when talking about what life was like in Korfez before the quake. A seaside town at the centre of Turkey's industrial heartland, Korfez enjoyed some prosperity and near-full employment.
In contrast to other Turkish towns, the skyline in Korfez is dominated not by the minarets of its mosques, but rather the domes and chimneys of the petrochemical industry. The largest Turkish oil producer, Tupras, has an oil refinery close by which employed more than 1500 people until Tuesday.
Despite the industrial nature of the town, Harun says the quality of living was excellent, with families spending their weekends by the sea, or when it got too hot, in the nearby mountains. "Everyone knew each other," he said. "It was like a holiday village."
It was to the mountains that the citizens of Korfez fled when the Tupras refinery went on fire after the earthquake. Fearing an enormous environmental catastrophe if the fire spread to a nearby ammonia production facility, the state authorities advised the people to flee to high ground.
There they sheltered for two days before returning to Korfez when the fire was brought under control. Many of the town's citizens are still traumatised that they had to leave friends, neighbours and relatives dying under the ruins of the town centre.
Harun's neighbour, Tancay Sauas, lost his sister in the earthquake. She was freed from the wreckage of her home two days after the catastrophe, having lost one arm. She died on the way to hospital from her injuries.
Neverthless, Tancay considers himself one of the lucky ones because he at least recovered the body of his sister. "Many people in Korfez are heartbroken because the machines dig up the bodies of their relatives along with the rubble and they never see the corpse".
Despite their traumas, Harun and Tancay are determined not to despair. Life in the camps is far from idyllic: some of the tents are leaky and residents fear being robbed by thieves posing as "volunteers".
However, the mood of the village was lifted yesterday when the sun broke through after four straight days of rain. The muddy ground started to harden again and food and clean water were in plentiful supply.
Harun hopes to escape the camps soon. "Life will be a struggle, but we're the lucky ones, we're alive. My wife will have a baby in two months and there will be a new life in the family.
"If the government keep their promises, everything will be normal by then and the children will be back to school. In the meantime, we have to be strong."