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2.2 million people evacuated from earthquake hit areas
Turkey’s President Erdogan has said that more than 2.2 million people have now been evacuated from areas affected by last week’s devastating earthquake, while 1.6 million have received emergency shelter.
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Turkey-Syria Earthquake: First UN aid convoy reaches border
The frantic hunt for survivors in the devastating earthquake last week which has so far claimed 38,000 lives in Turkey and Syria is slowing to a trickle as the clamour for aid and equipment intensifies.
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Syrians left to dig through collapsed buildings with bare hands without earthquake aid, NGO says
We spoke to Radwan Awad, Team Leader of the Syrian humanitarian organisation Mercy Corps, and asked him if they had received any kind of aid.
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Syria earthquake: Devastated rebel-held areas in urgent need of aid
In Syria, the area hardest hit by the earthquake is the northwest region, which is predominantly under rebel control and in desperate need of aid.
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Government ‘should have drawn lessons’ after 1999 earthquake, says Turkish opposition MP
We’re joined from the Turkish capital by Ünal Çeviköz, a senior MP from Turkey’s main opposition, the Republican People’s Party.
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Turkey earthquake: calls for more aid as hospitals overwhelmed with victims
A week after the earthquake in Turkey, international aid is arriving but hundreds of thousands of people are without basic supplies or places to live.
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Syria earthquake: ‘left behind’ and ‘forgotten’ says Brit-Syrian survivor
The United Nations says it is working urgently to get more aid into northern Syria, where areas devastated by the earthquake have seen little help. Rebel-held towns like Jandaris – close to the Turkish border – have had to make do without any of the supplies, heavy machinery and international rescue teams that have been…
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Turkey Syria earthquake: more incredible rescues but death toll passes 25,000
More than 25,000 people are now confirmed to have died in Turkey and Syria, after the powerful earthquakes which struck the region on Monday. As rescue teams continue to search through destroyed buildings that number is expected to rise. Incredibly, some people are still being pulled out alive, after more than 130 hours trapped under…
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Earthquake: ‘The worst scenario happened’, says Turkish MP
We spoke to Ahmet Yildiz, an MP from President Erdogan’s AK Party, who arrived in devastated Antakya today.
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Turkey Syria earthquake: Children still being pulled out alive as death toll hits 23,000
It’s now 108 hours since the first quake struck here at just after 4am on Monday when so many people were buried in over six thousand buildings that collapsed.
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Turkey’s earthquake tax “didn’t go to the right places”, says former diplomat
We were joined from Ankara by Sinan Ulgen, the former Turkish diplomat currently chairing the Istanbul-based Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy.
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‘Bad buildings killed people not the earthquake’, Turkish construction boss says
Among the many questions about the scale of deaths in this disaster is why some buildings collapsed when they were surrounded by others that didn’t?
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‘Please help us’ – Turks call on world for help after earthquake
Travelling around this region reveals the unimaginable scale of the tragedy.
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Turkey Syria earthquake: death toll rising as ‘window of rescue’ closing
People are still being pulled alive from collapsed buildings, following the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria. But they are now outnumbered by the dead.
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Engineer explains why Turkey earthquake was so destructive
In 1999 a quake in the north-west, around the city of Izmit, left some 17 thousand people dead. Stricter building safety standards were brought in, but experts say they have been poorly enforced.