Tag: Turkey

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — In 1999, a powerful earthquake struck northwestern Turkey, killing more than 17,000 people, exposing government incompetence and fueling an economic crisis....

At least 31,643 people died and another 80,000 were injured in the earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 that devastated southeastern Turkey on Monday,...

With no news from her aunt, Tuba Yolcu heads to the sports complex where the bodies taken from the ruins of her city, Kahramanmaras,...

Six and a half days after the earthquake which has devastated large regions of southeastern Turkey, rescue teams still managed to pull people alive...

As the death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria nears 29,000, UN humanitarian services chief Martin Griffiths has sounded a...

The devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday has already claimed more than 25,000 lives. And as rescuers continue to...

An elderly woman, a two-year-old girl, two teenagers, a woman and even a boy were later rescued spend more than 125 hours under the...

He devastating earthquake of magnitude 7.8 which was recorded in the border region between Turkey and Syria have already caused more than 24,000 deathsaccording...

Nothing new. In Turkey earthquakes have governments buried and born. It happened 20 years ago. But it is not only the...

Adem Altan, a photographer for 40 years, 15 of whom work for AFP, snapped photos in front of a collapsed building in Kahramanmaras, the...

rescue teams Two brothers, aged five and eleven, were rescued from the rubble. who had been trapped in the ruins of a building in...

The Mediterranean port of Iskenderun, in the Turkish province of Hatay, it still burns three days after the earthquakewhich devastated southeastern Turkey.This region, in...