Another reverse image search found a TikTok Video posted two days later, which appears to show the same cemetery and indicates its location as Adiyaman in southeastern Turkey (archived link).
Corresponding visual clues in the video shared in fake posts and the TikTok video confirmed that they show the same place.
from Türkiye Teyit Hattipart of the state-run Anadolu news agency, reported that the photo was taken at the Adiyaman New Cemetery (archived link).
AFP confirmed this by comparing the photo with Google Maps satellite images of the cemetery (archived link).
The cemetery was filled with the dead after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Turkey on February 6, 2023, The Financial Times reported (archived link).
The earthquake claimed more than 53,000 lives in Türkiye and almost 6,000 in neighboring Syria.
In Adiyaman province, badly hit by the quake, more than a third of buildings collapsed (archived link).
AFP was unable to independently verify whether the grave in the photo belonged to an earthquake victim.
July 8, 2024 This story has been changed to correct grammar in first paragraph
