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Latest tremor heaps misery on Turkish region reeling from earlier earthquake

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.

Radio France Internationale

Turkey launches investigation against more than 600 people over building collapses as toll exceeds 50,000

‘The detection of evidence in the buildings continues as a basis for criminal investigation’

The Independent UK

Glasgow aid worker begs Old Firm fans to help him save lives in earthquake disaster zone

As thousands descend on Hampden today, Kenny Hamilton asks them to spare a thought and a few pounds to help with the relief effort in Turkey and Syria after the devastating earthquake.

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More than 180 people arrested over collapse of buildings after Turkish earthquakes

Justice minister Bekir Bozdag said on Saturday that more than 600 people had been investigated

Evening Standard

'My wife and baby son are sleeping on the streets in Turkey'

"My family is too scared to go back into their house, all the walls are cracked and crumbling”

Manchester Evening News

Merseyside firefighters rescue people from 'utter carnage' of Turkey earthquake

Based in Croxteth the firefighters were among 77 British specialists deployed to help with search and rescue operations

Liverpool Echo

Los Angeles search-and-rescue teams return from Turkey after devastating earthquake

LOS ANGELES — Search-and-rescue workers from Los Angeles have returned from Turkey after spending weeks assisting in the aftermath of the region’s massive earthquake, which killed tens of thousands of people and displaced hundreds of thousands more.

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UN food agency chief tells of 'apocalyptic' scenes in quake-hit Turkey

The head of the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) said on Saturday he was confronted with "apocalyptic" scenes as he visited earthquake-stricken areas in southern Turkey.

Reuters

NI primary school pupils donate trip money to help Turkey and Syria earthquake victims

Pupils at King's Park Primary School in Newtownabbey raised the money to support relief work

Belfast Live

Belfast community rallies to support Turkish man who lost family members in earthquake

Mustafa Gunay lost his sister and her family when the earthquakes hit their home city of Antakya in Turkey

Belfast Live

Turkey widens probe into building collapses as quake toll exceeds 50,000

Turkey 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.

Reuters

Turkey launches investigation into 612 people after quake

Turkey's justice minister says investigations have been launched against more than 600 people in relation to buildings that collapsed in the country's catastrophic earthquake earlier this month

The Independent UK

Turkey quake survivors struggle to find shelter nearly three weeks on

Omran Alswed and his family are still living in makeshift shelters almost three weeks after the massive earthquake in southern Turkey, having been unable to find a place in an official camp.

Reuters

Gearoid Reidy: Quakes are inevitable. Huge death tolls are not

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. But when the earth shakes, it almost never comes with a warning.…

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Daily Mirror

Turkey hit by ANOTHER earthquake weeks after disaster that killed 50,000

Tens of thousands of people across Turkey and Syria were killed or made homeless after a series of earth-shattering quakes caused the collapse of countless buildings and ripped the ground apart earlier this month

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Turkey's Antakya is in ruins after the quake, erasing cultural and religious heritage

The city of Antakya, known in antiquity as Antioch, was at the crossroads of civilizations for centuries. After the Feb. 6 earthquake, many of its centuries-old monuments and sites lie in ruins.

Reuters

Turkey's last Armenian village fears for its future after quake

In Turkey's only remaining ethnic Armenian village, Vakifli, the elderly population thank God that not one of them died during the devastating earthquakes that struck the region. But they fear for the future of their cherished home.

Radio France Internationale

Turkey maintains cordial links with Russia on first anniversary of Ukraine war

With Russia's invasion of Ukraine entering its second year, questions over Turkey's equivocal approach to the conflict are likely to become more insistent. While Europe united in condemning Russia and swiftly imposed stringent sanctions on Moscow, Nato member Turkey took a more nuanced stance.

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Daily Record

Aziz Behich can be Dundee United escape artist having proved survival instincts three times over

The Aussie left back won three relegation dog fights in Turkey and isn;t backing down from another on Tayside.

Al Jazeera

Death toll climbs above 50,000 after Turkey, Syria earthquakes

Nearly 240,000 rescuers continue to work in quake-hit provinces in Turkey, though no survivors have been found recently.

AAP

Aussies recover dozens of victims after Turkey quake

Australian crews sent to help in the Turkey earthquake recovery effort are returning after helping locals to pull bodies from the rubble.

Reuters

Earthquake death toll surpasses 50,000 in Turkey and Syria

The death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria that struck on Feb. 6 surpassed 50,000 on Friday after Turkey declared more than 44,000 people died.

Al Jazeera

Syrian refugees in Turkey face return to quake-stricken areas

Gov’t directives issued after quakes allow refugees in affected provinces to move around, but only for a limited time.

Reuters

In polarized Turkey, political feeling steers earthquake donations

An NGO started by a Turkish rock star and endorsed by pop star Madonna has raised 1 billion Turkish lira ($53 million) for earthquake victims, after many opposed to Turkey's government said they prefer not to donate to state-run organisations.

Reuters

Children play, mother mourns: life grinds on in a Turkey camp

With a smile on her face but pain in her eyes, Fatima Asheri watched her two surviving children play with other young earthquake survivors at a camp for displaced people near the centre of Turkey's disaster zone.

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