A 111-year-old woman with 120 grandchildren says her secret to living so long has been to eat and drink in moderation - but to laugh as much as possible.
Fayikiye Soker, who lives in a village near the town of Samandag in southern Turkey's Hatay Province, is one of the country's oldest women.
The widow says she has always followed a healthy lifestyle and has hardly ever seen a doctor in her long life.
She laughs and jokes all the time and is a constant source of joy to her huge family.
Fayikiye said: "Young people should take more care of what they eat and drink. I did and that’s why I’m still alive and will live a good while longer.
"God granted me such a long life. I hope God gives everybody long life. I think one of the secrets is to laugh loud and often."
Fayikiye, who often shares her childhood memories with her grandchildren, says she can still remember the first time she saw an aeroplane.
She said: "We were kids back then. Suddenly we heard a great noise coming. I said: "What is that?"
"Then we saw it and I said: "Look, a big bird is coming!" We had never seen anything like it before. How could we know?"
Fayikiye has eight children who have given her 120 grandchildren, countless great-grandchildren and even two great, great-grandchildren.
In her younger days she worked as a midwife, which is why she is now regarded as the nanny of not just her own family but the whole village.
Hanifi Soker, 42, one of her grandsons, says the official records show that her date of birth is July 1, 1904.
"We are so happy that she is still with us. May God give her an even longer life," he said.
"I hope we live as long as she did. And I hope we will be as healthy as my granny. She is a living legend."
After her husband's death in 1984, she moved in with one of her daughters-in-law, Feride Soker.
Feride, 52, who lost her own husband in 2013, says that she regards Fayikiye as her "real mother".
She said: "We have been comrades to each other for 32 years. Our relation is a mother-daughter relation rather than a daughter-in-law mother-in-law relation."
Samandag is a town at the mouth of the Orontes River on the Mediterranean coast, near Turkey's border with Syria.
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