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Turkey-Syria quake: fading hopes and shoddy buildings
The WHO called it the “worst natural disaster” in 100 years in the region.
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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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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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Turkey quake: over a hundred arrest warrants issued over building safety
More than 33,000 people are now known to have died after Monday’s earthquakes in Turkey and Syria – and each hour rescue workers find yet more bodies in the rubble of destroyed towns. Remarkably, some people are still being found alive. Earlier today a ten year old girl was among survivors pulled out of collapsed…
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Agonising wait for bodies to be found with death toll rising in Turkey and Syria
The ancient city of Antakya lies almost entirely in ruins. Most of those who remain in the city are now waiting for the bodies of their loved ones to be unearthed from their homes.
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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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‘Syria represents entirely different aid approach to Turkey’, says head of emergency at International Federation of Red Cross
It’s clear the aid operation in Turkey will continue for months to come.
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British doctors have been ‘extremely warmly welcomed’, says UK-Med doctor in Turkey
We Spoke to Dr Steve Mannion – he’s one of a medical team flown out to Turkey by the charity UK-Med which enables NHS staff to volunteer on overseas crises like this by funding staff to cover their jobs back home.
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Rescue efforts defy odds in quake-hit areas of Turkey and Syria
In the wake of every natural disaster comes a horrible turning point at which rescue missions become recovery operations.
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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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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.
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Turkey’s Erdogan admits problems with earthquake emergency response
President Erdogan has acknowledged that initially there were problems with Turkey’s emergency response and has promised to rehouse people left without homes within a year.
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Turkey-Syria earthquake: not enough aid getting to those desperate for help
Our chief correspondent Alex Thomson has been to the small town of Nurdagi which is close to the epicentre of Monday’s strongest quake.
