The Latest Breaking News from Turkey

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 · Feb 13, 2023

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

Daily Mirror · Feb 13, 2023

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 · Feb 13, 2023

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 Japan News/Yomiuri · Feb 13, 2023

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

The Independent UK · Feb 13, 2023

‘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.

France 24 · Feb 13, 2023

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]

Reuters · Feb 13, 2023

'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 · Feb 13, 2023

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 · Feb 13, 2023

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.

Reuters · Feb 13, 2023