The Latest Breaking News from Turkey

Kadriye Karakas, from Epsom, has been glued to the news since the earthquake hit

For Viktor Holczer, a Hungarian IT expert, Turkey was the first major rescue mission in which he took part as a volunteer. And he will always remember the moment when he grabbed the hand of 17-year-old Asya, rescued from the rubble almost four days after last week's quake.

The earthquake in Turkey and Syria has not affected outbound tours as the incident took place in an area that does not include major tourism destinations, and the market was already sluggish due to political unrest.

Capital FM radio DJ Ant Payne has apologised after bring heavily criticised on social media after he appeared on the radio station and encouraged listeners to make the most of cheap flights to Turkey

The United Nations says Syria’s president has agreed to open two new crossing points from Turkey to the country’s rebel-held northwest to deliver desperately needed aid and equipment fon millions of earthquake victims

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to allow UN aid deliveries to opposition-held northwest Syria through two additional border crossings from Turkey for three months, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday.

The UK's Foreign Office has recently updated its travel advice for three major holiday hotspots.

Stories of miraculous rescues flooded the airwaves in recent days, but tens of thousands of dead have also been found.

The strong and disastrous earthquake that shook southern Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6 drew attention to search-and-rescue (SAR) operations. The media’s attention raised familiar questions around SAR, including who conducts SAR, what formal and informal SAR teams are available, and how long trapped people are able to survive before…

Videos have surfaced in Turkish media of the president in 2019 praising a policy that let builders off the hook for skirting safety codes that could have made buildings more quake resistant.

A week after earthquakes struck, Turkish rescue crews refuse to give up and find a teenage girl in the rubble.