The Latest Breaking News from Turkey

The former Chelsea and Newcastle star overcame poverty to reach the Premier League, before giving back by helping build schools with his charity work in Ghana

Rescue workers fanned across Turkey and Syria in a second day of desperate searches to find survivors from the massive earthquake and aftershocks that had the death toll climbing by the hour.

The footballer was reportedly pulled, injured, from the rubble of a collapsed building

Senior officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that Syria's humanitarian needs where the highest after a major earthquake killed thousands there and in southern Turkey.

Aid flows from Turkey to northwest Syria have temporarily stopped due to the fallout of a devastating earthquake, a U.N. spokesperson said on Tuesday, leaving aid workers grappling with the problem of how to help people in a country fractured by war.

As frantic rescue operations continue, survivors of Monday’s deadly earthquakes and aftershocks tell their stories.

The Ghana Football Association says former Chelsea and Newcastle forward Christian Atsu has been rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building following the powerful earthquake that struck Turkey and neighboring Syria on Monday

Aftershocks and freezing weather hamper efforts of rescue teams searching for survivors after 7.8-magnitude quake

Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said on Tuesday that the death toll from the earthquakes centred in southeastern Turkey rose to 3,419, bringing the total including those killed in Syria to more than 5,000.