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Last month’s earthquakes led to suggestions that Turkey’s parliamentary and presidential elections would be postponed.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan indicated on Wednesday that elections will be held on May 14, sticking to his previous plan for the vote with a date just over three months after a devastating earthquake killed more than 45,000 people in Türkiye. "This nation will do what is necessary on May…

The death toll in Türkiye from last month's devastating earthquake has risen to 45,089, the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said on Wednesday, bringing the total toll including Syria to about 51,000. The earthquake and subsequent powerful tremors injured more than 108,000 in Türkiye and left millions sheltering in…

European legal experts compiled a dossier of witness testimonies giving details of torture, state sponsored kidnapping, and wrongful imprisonment

How the earthquake could spell the end of his rule.

The World Health Organization (WHO) will support Ankara in its response to massive earthquakes that killed more than 50,000, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday, as the death toll from the latest aftershock rose to two. The massive earthquakes that struck Türkiye's southeast and neighboring Syria in the last…

Earthquakes in southeastern Türkiye that destroyed cities and killed 44,000 people have prompted authorities to look again at how the quake-prone nation might cope with a similar tremor in Türkiye's densely populated, northwestern industrial heartland. Istanbul, Türkiye's biggest city with a population of 16 million and the country's commercial engine,…

Cries of "government resign" rang out from Turkish football stadiums at the weekend as fans criticised the government's response to this month's earthquakes that have killed more than 50,000 people in southern Turkey and northern Syria.

Earthquakes can neither be prevented nor predicted. If a Category 5 typhoon nears, evacuations are possible; there can be time to move to a safe zone before the pyroclastic flow of a volcano sweeps all in its path.

Turkey continues to struggle in the wake of deadly earthquakes, with nearly 50,000 dead and millions homeless in the worst humanitarian crisis in the hundred-year history of the Turkish Republic. The crisis is now threatening to become a political one for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Türkiye has arrested 184 people suspected of responsibility for the collapse of buildings in this month's earthquakes and investigations are widening, a minister said on Saturday, as anger simmers over what many see as corrupt building practices. Overnight, the death toll from the earthquakes, the most powerful of which struck…