One discovered a tribal family living in a stone house on Mount Koshan in Turkey. This family lives in difficult conditions, isolated from everything, in a remote corner of the world.
This amazing family lives on a mountain at an altitude of 2500 meters. The family lives in a cave-like house built on a hill near the top of Mount Koshan, at the intersection of the borders of Tunceli, Bingöl and Erzincan in Turkey.
An 80-year-old father lives here with his 78-year-old wife and five children. In addition, the family had received no news of his five other children, who had left home some twenty years earlier and never returned.
The family lives with few means of earning a living and raises a small number of farm animals. Winter in this region is harsh. With the help of the surrounding villagers, the family members are able to exchange goods for flour, potatoes, onions and tea.
The family sometimes eats meat from animals they raise themselves. Their children never went to school and never watched television. They don’t know what the Internet is.
Without water or electricity, the family lives a primitive lifestyle. The father said that if his children went to the city, they might get lost and not find their way back.
“It is very difficult to live in these conditions. Anyone with a conscience should help us. We have no strength left.”
The mountaineer who saw the family climbing Mount Koshan said that the family lived in terrible conditions and that it was impossible to live at such an altitude.
