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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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‘No one has arrived’ to help after earthquake says doctor in north west Syria
Dr Mahmoud Kaddah is a paediatric surgeon at Bab al-Hawa Hospital near the Turkish-Syrian border.
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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.
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Turkey-Syria earthquake: tens of thousands still missing under rubble
The death toll from Monday’s earthquakes raced past 11,000 today. It’s possible that tens of thousands more lie dead in the rubble of thousands of collapsed buildings in Turkey and Syria.
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Earthquake response: Turkish and Syrian communities in the UK organise relief efforts
People from Britain’s Turkish and Syrian communities have responded quickly to the earthquake crisis.
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UNICEF’s representative in Aleppo explains the situation in Syria after deadly earthquakes
We were joined by Angela Kearney, UNICEF’s representative in Aleppo.
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Earthquake: Emergency upon emergency as crisis hits war-torn Syria
In Syria, as in Turkey, they are desperately going through rubble, trying to pull survivors out. With the official number killed heading towards 2000.
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Turkey earthquake: Race to rescue thousands from under the rubble
More than seven thousand people are confirmed to have died across Syria and Turkey.
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Turkish communities in UK anxiously await news after earthquakes
For many in the UK, the desire to help is highly personal, as people with family and friends in the area anxiously search for news, and mobilise to get assistance to those who need it.
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Devastating aftermath of deadly earthquakes being felt across Turkey
Our reporter Emily Wither is in Adana, a city in southern Turkey that’s around 150 miles from the first quake’s epicentre.
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Earthquake victims in Turkey need shelter, blankets and food says Red Crescent Turkey
The Foreign Office has pledged to help Turkey with the deployment tonight of search and rescue specialists, equipment and an Emergency Medical Team.
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Those who had fled violence multiple times among Syrian earthquake victims
The scenes of devastation in Syria are distressingly familiar. But as the emergency workers known as the White Helmets pull people from the rubble today, the cause is a natural disaster, rather than the war that’s inflicted so much suffering over the past 12 years.
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Jersey explosion: ‘I thought it was an earthquake’, says Dean of Jersey
We spoke to Reverend Michael Keirle, the Dean of Jersey.
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At least 268 dead after Indonesia earthquake
Rescuers in Indonesia say many children are among the dead following an earthquake in West Java.
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Afghanistan earthquake: Taliban appeals for aid as thousands left injured and homeless
The Taliban deputy leader has appealed for international aid as Afghanistan struggles to cope with the thousands left injured and homeless by Wednesday’s earthquake.