All news on the topic: Turkey (Türkiye)

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Brit says he fears he's lost 50 friends and relatives in earthquake 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
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Terrifying huge chasm appears in Earth’s crust sparked by Turkey earthquakes
Despite the devastation, rescuers continue to have some success in their desperate search for survivors - on Saturday a two-year-old boy was found alive after being buried in the rubble for 133 hours
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Girl, 10, rescued after six trapped under Turkey earthquake rubble
Video released by the Istanbul municipality showed rescuers pulling the girl through a hole in a floor of a damaged building, in Hatay, before carrying her out on a stretcher from where she had been buried for 147 hours
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Teen pulled from earthquake rubble by Brit rescuers asks for Harry Potter books
The team leader of British rescue charity SARAID, Rob Davies, said a 15-year-old was rescued from the rubble in Turkey after five days and all that she was interested in was her Harry Potter books
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Boy, 2, saved from Turkey earthquake rubble 133 hours after he was buried alive
Aliye Dagli, two, was pulled from a collapsed building after surviving under rubble for more than five days. The death toll from the earthquake in Turkey and Syria is at least 25,000 - and could double
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Traumatised child earthquake victims laugh with pals as experts help them forget
Astonishing photographs from earthquake-hit Turkey show how psycho-social support workers encourage youngsters to jump and laugh to protect them from traumatic memories of the disaster horrors
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'Victims of Turkey and Syria earthquake need our support now - we should help'
Rachael Bletchly says as the days passed after the tragic earthquake earlier this week, images of children being rescued in Turkey and Syria brought tiny flickers of hope amidst the darkness
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Miracle as five family members found alive after days under earthquake rubble
Rescue workers extricated the family of five from among a mound of debris in the hard-hit town of Nurdagi, in Gaziantep province, where they had been surviving under the rubble for five days
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Man's mother and brother died in each other's arms in Turkey earthquake
Kerem Aydin received the terrible news that his mother and brother had both died in the earthquake, and they were found hugging in the rubble-strewn remains of their home in Antakya
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Turkey earthquake wipes out sheep as farmer tries to rescue animals from rubble
In a video shared with the Mirror, farmer Kamil Yavuz is seen walking around his now devastated farm in Harunusagi village, in the Malatya region of Turkey where over 100 sheep died
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Three bodies found in search for school volleyball team after Turkey earthquake
Rescuers searching the collapsed hotel that had left members of a school volleyball team trapped following Monday's devastating earthquake have now found three bodies
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Twitter blocked in Turkey amid fears of disinformation following earthquakes
Internet-monitoring group NetBlocks said on Wednesday that Twitter had been blocked on several networks across Turkey, with the filtering having been applied on major internet providers
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Sister shields brother from rubble during 3-day wait for help after earthquake
The elder girl is seen gently stroking her younger brother’s head as they lie wedged between what appears to be the remains of their bed and a collapsed concrete wall, in Besnaya-Bseineh, a small village in Haram, Syria
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All the ways you can help Turkey-Syria earthquake victims as deaths reach 9,500
Over 9,500 people have died and tens of thousands more are injured and missing in Turkey and Syria following the earthquake. Here is how you can help those in need
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Brit's 'blood froze' after seeing wife and child caught in earthquake on babycam
Lemi, who provides security for Hull City owner Acun Ilicali, was safe in Istanbul when the first quake began but his wife Victoria and their baby daughter Katelyn were in the city of Adana, near the epicentre
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Horse racing in Turkey cancelled as tracks open doors for earthquake relief
The four tracks nearest to the region worst affected by the earthquake which has killed more than 11,000 people are providing shelter and collecting essential supplies
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Brit's horror hearing people buried under concrete after earthquake killed 9,500
Timothy Whiting, from Yorkshire, has lived in the wider region for the past five years and was visiting Antakya, in Turkey's south, when the twin earthquakes hit
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"A number of young athletes" among earthquake victims as IOC promises help
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has promised they are "ready to help in whatever way we can" after Turkey and Syria were devastated by earthquakes
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Three British nationals missing after Turkey earthquake kills 5,000 people
Making a statement in the Commons, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly confirmed that three British nationals are missing and a further 35 are affected by the earthquake in Syria and Turkey
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World's tallest woman forced to lie over 6 plane seats because she can't sit up
Rumeysa Gelgi from Turkey has extremely rare condition Weaver Syndrome and stands at more than 7ft tall meaning she can't travel in normal-sized cars and flies lying down
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Miracle baby born an orphan underneath earthquake rubble as both parents killed
Painful footage shows the baby girl taking its first breath surrounded by destruction after its mother went into labour during the quake, in Jenderes, in the countryside of Afrin, northeast Syria
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Death toll in Turkey-Syria earthquake surges to 5,000 as third tremor hits
Around 1,000 rescuers from across the globe, including 74 Brits, will join local teams trying to pull victims from the destruction. UK relief worker Atiqur Rahman is helping with the search for survivors
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Doctor 'thought he was going to die' as he describes horror of huge earthquake
Dr Osama Sallom described scenes - flattened buildings and hospitals full of bodies - in Syria which looked heartbreakingly similar to residents who have faced 11 years of bombardment from the war
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Dramatic footage shows building collapsing during aftermath of huge earthquake
At least one seven storey building collapsed in the Haliliye district of Şanlıurfa province in Turkey during an aftershock of an enormous 7.8-magnitude earthquake
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Olympic champion's urgent plea as '30-40 wrestlers' trapped in Turkey earthquake
Olympic freestyle wrestler Taha Akgul has pleaded for "urgent help" after the building where his wrestling club is based was "demolished" by a massive earthquake leaving 30-40 wrestlers trapped "under the rubble"