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Faster and cheaper: Turkey's construction sector blamed for scale of earthquake devastation

Developers in Turkey’s construction sector are in the hot seat and dozens have been arrested following the earthquakes that caused the collapse of thousands of multi-storey buildings and individual houses on February 6, killing tens of thousands. FRANCE 24's Shona Bhattacharyya, Ludovic de Foucaud and Hussein Asad report from Osmaniye,…

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Man heard screams before line went dead as friend called from Syria earthquake zone

Man who fled Syria due to war in 2013 is raising funds to help relief efforts following the earthquake in Syria and Turkey

Liverpool Echo

Teenager rescued from rubble in Turkey 182 hours after quake

Rescuers pulled an alive 13-year-old out from under the rubble of a collapsed building in Turkey's southern Hatay province on Monday, Reuters footage showed, more than a week after a devastating earthquake struck.

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Once home to civilisations, fabled Antioch left in ruins

Antakya (Turkey) (AFP) - The smashed dome of the ancient mosque, considered to be Turkey's oldest, covers rubble that used to be a prayer hall.

AFP

Quake victims have ‘lost everything’, say relatives in plea for donations

Up to 150 tons of aid has been donated to one collection depot in the West Midlands, alone.

The Independent UK

Turkey won't allow new Syrian refugee influx after quake -minister

Turkey will not allow a new influx of refugees from Syria after last week's devastating earthquake, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday.

Reuters

Turkey earthquake: Brit says he fears he's lost 50 friends and relatives in disaster

Ismail Yildiz, who has lived in Worcester since 2018, comes from the southern Turkish city of Adiyaman, which was destroyed in the quakes that have now taken over 35,000 lives

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Spain, France and Turkey travel advice updated for Brits heading on half term holidays

The UK's Foreign Office has updated its travel advice for holidaymakers heading to Spain, France and Turkey due to evolving Covid rules and the devastating earthquake

Daily Mirror

Watch: Turkey earthquake survivors still being rescued a week on

People buried under rubble for up to seven days are still being pulled out alive.

Al Jazeera

Rural Turkey struggles with consequences of quake

Residents of rural areas in south-eastern Turkey have been struggling to overcome the consequences of the 7.8 magnitude deadly earthquake which hit Syria and Turkey a week ago.Polat, a village located approximately 100 kilometres from the quake epicentre, has almost been entirely ruined.Unlike bigger towns, government help came to Polat…

Evening Standard

Woman, 40, rescued alive from Turkey rubble more than a full week after earthquake

She had been trapped under the rubble of a five-storey building

The Independent UK

Quake stalls election campaign of Turkey's splintered opposition

Istanbul (AFP) - Turkey's splintered political opposition was supposed to agree Monday on a joint candidate to challenge Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 20-year grip on power at the ballot box.

AFP

Turkey finds a few more earthquake survivors as further rescue hopes fade

Turkish rescue efforts wind down amid grief and anger while UN calls for aid access to north-west Syria

The Guardian - UK

Turkey-Syria quake toll rises above 35,000

Kahramanmaras (Turkey) (AFP) - The toll from last week's earthquake in Turkey and Syria rose above 35,000 on Monday, as rescue teams started to wind down the search for survivors and the aid effort shifted to hundreds of thousands of people made homeless.

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Govt plane loaded with medical aid for Turkey

CHITOSE, Hokkaido -- A government airplane for carrying medical resources and equipment departed from the Air Self-Defense Force's Chitose Air Base in Chitose, Hokkaido, on Monday morning as part of emergency international aid to Turkey, where a powerful earthquake struck last week.

The Independent UK

Son recounts horror of watching mother die in Turkey rubble as they waited for help that never came

Anger grows at ‘slow’ response from rescuers, as some claim disparities based on politics and religion

France 24

‘It’s too much’: Waiting for the dead in Turkey’s quake-stricken Nurdagi

Search and rescue teams are still at work amid an apocalyptic landscape in Nurdagi, a southeastern Turkish town near the epicentre of the January 6 earthquakes. But at this point they are looking for the remains of the dead, not survivors.

Reuters

Factbox-AFAD: Turkey's Disaster Management Authority

Turkey's Disaster Management Authority (AFAD) is tasked with coordinating search, rescue and aid efforts in response to earthquakes, floods, forest fires and other emergencies. [L1N34Q1CN]

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'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

UN aid chief: quake rescue phase 'coming to a close'

The phase of the rescue after the major earthquake struck Turkey and Syria a week ago is "coming to a close" with urgency now switching to shelter, food, schooling and psychosocial care, the U.N. aid chief said during a visit to Syria on Monday.

Reuters

As hopes fade for quake survivors, people try to salvage what they can

In the Turkish town of Elbistan, a young man sat atop a pile of collapsed concrete and twisted metal, staring for half an hour at a small opening in the ruins of what had been his family's home.

The Independent UK

Watch live as rescuers continue search for survivors in Turkey as earthquake death toll tops 33,000

Watch live as rescue efforts continue in Turkey as the death toll from devastating earthquakes across Turkey and Syria passes 33,000.

WEKU

Rescuers keep digging for survivors a week after the Turkey-Syria earthquake

People buried under rubble in southern Turkey continue to defy the odds, surviving freezing weather and a week without water. A 40-year-old woman was pulled alive in Gaziantep province early Monday.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Earthquake survivors in Turkey face more tragic times as nation approaches economic collapse

Tragedy has long haunted the broad swath of land where earthquakes have just claimed thousands of lives, left many thousands of people injured and plunged already impoverished millions into yet deeper financial despair.

Al Jazeera

‘Only bones left’: Turkey families look for remains as hopes fade

Anger is mounting as earthquake rescuers say they could have saved many more people with better help from the gov’t.

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