The earthquakes that struck ten southern Turkish provinces on February 6 mark the country’s worst humanitarian disaster in modern history. Bustling cities were leveled, ancient citadels crumbled, and ...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has travelled to the area worst-hit by the quake, news agencies report. He is set to visit Kahramanmaras and Hatay as well as Pazarcik, the quake's eipcentre.

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In February 2023, devastating earthquakes struck southeastern Turkey and northwest Syria, killing more than 50,000 people. In the aftermath, attention quickly shifted from the scale of the disaster to ...

Twenty-four people were killed and hundreds injured when a train packed with weekend passengers derailed in northwest Turkey due to ground erosion after heavy rains, officials said Monday. The train, ...

Gaziantep, Turkey – When Elmas Abdulghani has a flashback, her body still shakes like the floor of her apartment on that early February morning a year ago. She was woken up by the screams of her ...

(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck western Turkey on Sunday, the country's AFAD disaster management authority said, while local media said the quake was felt across multiple provinces.

When natural disasters strike, women and girls tend to experience disproportionate challenges and heightened risks. Earthquake survivors in Turkey also include 356,000 pregnant women who, at the end ...

Turkey on Tuesday holds pre-dawn vigils for the loss of more than 50,000 people -- and parts of entire cities — in the earthquake-prone country's deadliest disaster of modern times. Grieving Turks are ...

Turkey's president has hit back at mounting anger over the state's response, saying: "It is not possible to be prepared for a disaster this big." Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters the official death ...