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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The number of people killed in Turkey in this month’s devastating earthquakes has risen to 43,556, the country’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said overnight. Soylu told state broadcaster TRT…

By Ali Kucukgocmen and Henriette Chacar ANTAKYA, Turkey (Reuters) -Six people were killed in the latest earthquake to strike the border region of Turkey and Syria, authorities said on Tuesday, two weeks…

By Ali Kucukgocmen and Henriette Chacar ANTAKYA, Turkey (Reuters) – Another earthquake struck the border region of Turkey and Syria on Monday, just two weeks after the area was devastated by a…

By Ceyda Caglayan and Can Sezer ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s plan to rebuild quickly after devastating earthquakes rocked the country risks courting another disaster unless urban planning and building…

By Clodagh Kilcoyne, Henriette Chacar and Marco Trujillo ANTAKYA/KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey (Reuters) – Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said a convoy of 14 of its trucks had entered northwestern Syria on Sunday…

ANKARA (Reuters) -Ghana winger Christian Atsu has been found dead under the building where he lived in southern Turkey after last week’s huge earthquake, his Turkish agent said on Saturday. Atsu had…

By John Irish MUNICH (Reuters) -The head of the World Food Programme (WFP) on Saturday pressured authorities in northwestern Syria to stop blocking access to the area as it seeks to help…

By Henriette Chacar KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey (Reuters) – More than a week after his home was wrecked in a deadly earthquake that hit southern Turkey, Mohammad Emin’s body is still covered in dust…

By Ali Kucukgocmen and Clodagh Kilcoyne ANTAKYA, Turkey (Reuters) -Nine survivors were rescued from the rubble in Turkey on Tuesday, more than a week after a massive earthquake struck, as the focus…

ANTAKYA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) -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…

By Ali Kucukgocmen and Henriette Chacar ANTAKYA/ELBISTAN, Turkey (Reuters) – Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble on Sunday, nearly a week after one of the worst earthquakes to hit Turkey and…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Sunday called on Syria and all parties to immediately grant humanitarian access to all those in need across the country after Monday’s earthquake and major…

By Timour Azhari and Maya Gebeily BEIRUT/ADANA (Reuters) – Earthquake aid from government-held parts of Syria into opposition-controlled territory has been held up by “approval issues” with one hardline group, a United…

By Ali Kucukgocmen ANTAKYA, Turkey (Reuters) – Aslihan Kavasoglu has spent the last six days camped out with her family in a small building in a park in the Turkish city of…

By Khalil Ashawi JANDARIS, Syria (Reuters) – An eerie silence lay over the courtyard of Ramadan al-Suleiman’s nursery in northern Syria on Sunday as he picked his way through smashed cinderblocks, twisted…

By Maya Gebeily, Ali Kucukgocmen and Khalil Ashawi ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria (Reuters) -Exhausted rescuers pulled dwindling numbers of survivors from earthquake rubble in Turkey and Syria on Saturday five days after one…

By Erol Dogrudogan KIRIKHAN, Turkey/BERLIN (Reuters) -Two German aid organisations suspended rescue operations in quake-hit Turkey on Saturday, citing security problems and reports of clashes between groups of people and gunfire. The…