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Turkey school shooting: 9 killed, many hurt; 2nd such incident in two days

Tragedy struck Kahramanmaras, Turkey, as a middle school student unleashed gunfire, claiming nine lives including a teacher. The assailant, who used his father's hidden weapons, also perished. This grim event follows a similar shooting in Urfa the previous day, where a former student injured sixteen before taking his own life.…

The Times of India

Fear, Uncertainty And Grief Year After Turkey's Quake

Over 65 nightmarish seconds of the pre-dawn hours of February 6, 2023, the ground swallowed swathes of entire cities across Turkey's southeast, resulting in more than 50,000 deaths.

International Business Times

6 months after a devastating earthquake, Turkey's preparedness is still uncertain

Six months ago today, a devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the Kahramanmaras and 10 other provinces in southern Turkey on the morning of February 6th

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In earthquake epicentre, Turkey’s Erdogan remains popular

Elections on Sunday may bring sweeping change to Turkey, but in an earthquake zone many will vote for the president.

Al Jazeera

Watch live cleanup operations in Kahramanmaras after fresh wave of earthquakes rock Turkey

Watch live as a cleanup operation gets underway in Kahramanmaras following two fresh earthquakes on the Turkey-Syria border on Monday (20 February).

The Independent UK

Rescue Efforts Wind Down in Türkiye, Many Left to Mourn without a Funeral

Rescue efforts in earthquake-hit Türkiye wind down on Sunday, nearly two weeks after the country's deadliest modern disaster struck, with many praying only for bodies to mourn. "Would you pray to find a dead body? We do ... to deliver the body to the family," said bulldozer operator Akin Bozkurt…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Turkish bulldozer operator prays for bodies to allow families a grave

As his bulldozer claws at the rubble of buildings destroyed by this month's earthquake, operator Akin Bozkurt consoles himself that by finding bodies he gives family members the chance to have a funeral for loved ones and a grave where they can mourn.

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Turkey quake survivors struggle to bury their dead

In the Turkish town of Pazarcik, a soccer pitch has been turned into a burial ground for people killed by the earthquake which struck 11 days ago. The goal posts are still standing but the field is dotted with about 100 dirt mounds and ditches.

Reuters

Teenager Rescued from Rubble in Türkiye 10 Days after Quake

A teenage girl was pulled alive from the rubble in Türkiye on Thursday more than 10 days after an earthquake that has killed more than 42,000 people in the country and neighboring Syria, as families of those still missing await news of their fate. The 17-year-old was rescued in Türkiye’s…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Young woman rescued from rubble 248 hours after earthquake in Turkey -broadcaster

A 17-year-old woman was rescued on Thursday from the rubble of a building that collapsed in the southern central province of Kahramanmaras, 248 hours after a massive earthquake struck the area this week, killing more than 40,000 people in Turkey and Syria.

Reuters

Photos tied to tree of missing boys highlight painful search for earthquake victims

No one knows what has become of the two boys whose photos are tied to a tree close to the block of flats where they lived in the earthquake-hit Turkish city of Kahramanmaras.

Reuters

Turkey earthquake: Woman, 42, pulled to safety from rubble 222 hours after disaster

TV footage showed rescue workers carrying the Melike Imamoglu, 42, strapped onto a stretcher, to an ambulance in the southern Turkish city of Kahramanmaras

Evening Standard

Turkey buries its earthquake dead in small cemeteries and mass graves

With so many killed suddenly in the quake, Turkey faces the challenge of burying tens of thousands of people. Multiple funerals are happening at once and the process of burying the dead is constant.

WEKU

Kahramanmaras: Defeater of the French Succumbs to the Major Quake

The Turkish city of Kahramanmaras did not hold its annual celebration on February 12 to mark the anniversary of the defeat of French occupiers in 1920. The commemoration has been held every year since the establishment of the modern Turkish state. The name of the city is a combination of…

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Relatives Anxiously Search for Loved Ones from under Rubble of Türkiye Quake

Ghaleb stands in a small park facing what once was the biggest hotel in the heart of the Turkish city of Kahramanmaras that was devastated by last week’s earthquake. He watches silently and anxiously as vehicles lift the rubble of the hotel that was one of the city’s landmarks. He…

Reuters

Three women, two children pulled from rubble in Turkey, some aid reaches Syria

Two women were pulled from the rubble in Turkey's southern city of Kahramanmaras and a mother and two children were rescued from the city of Antakya on Wednesday, as rescue efforts shifted to getting relief to survivors nine days after a deadly earthquake.

Reuters

Earthquake drone footage shows depth of destruction in Turkish town

Drone footage in the southern Turkish city of Kahramanmaras showed the devastation caused by the earthquake, collapsing dozens of buildings and forcing hundreds of families to live in tents erected in a stadium in freezing temperatures.

Al Jazeera

In quake-hit Kahramanmaras, the stench of death lingers

In the midst of debris, dust and toxic smoke rising from fires lit to stay warm, the smell of dead bodies is growing.

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Reuters

'A crane, for God's sake': Inside the struggles of Turkey's earthquake response

Kevser said she could hear her two sons trapped beneath the rubble of their collapsed apartment building in the Turkish city of Antakya but for two days she was unable to find an emergency response leader to order their rescue.

Reuters

Nine survivors pulled from Turkey's rubble as earthquake death toll passes 40,000

Nine survivors were rescued from the rubble in Turkey on Tuesday, more than a week after a massive earthquake struck, as the focus of the aid effort shifted to helping people now struggling without shelter or enough food in the bitter cold.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Race to Identify Türkiye Quake Victims

Tuba Yolcu is desperate for news of her missing aunt and scours a sports hall where victims of a powerful earthquake that hit her hometown in Türkiye lie in body bags. "We hear (the authorities) will no longer keep the bodies waiting after a certain period of time, they say…

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Relief Chief: Türkiye-Syria Quake Deaths to Top 50,000

The death toll from a massive earthquake in Türkiye and Syria will "double or more" from its current level of 28,000, UN relief chief Martin Griffiths has said. Griffiths arrived on Saturday in Türkiye's southern city of Kahramanmaras, the epicenter of the first 7.8-magnitude tremor that upturned millions of lives…

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Aid Chief Says World Must Remember Those Displaced by Quake in Türkiye and Syria

UN aid chief Martin Griffiths appealed on Saturday to remember thousands of people who needed shelter and food while rescuers kept searching for survivors of the devastating earthquake that hit southern Türkiye and northwestern Syria. Speaking during a news briefing in the Turkish province of Kahramanmaras, as rescuers worked behind…

Reuters

Survivors ever fewer in quake rubble of Turkey and Syria

Exhausted rescuers pulled dwindling numbers of survivors from earthquake rubble in Turkey and Syria on Saturday five days after one of the region's worst natural disasters whose death toll neared 26,000 and looked set to rise far higher.

Bangkok Post

Quake death toll above 23,000 in Turkey, Syria

The death toll in Turkey and Syria from this week’s catastrophic earthquake surpassed 23,600 on Friday as relief organisations struggled to overcome an array of obstacles to deliver aid to survivors in both countries.

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