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  • Turkey investigates contractors as earthquake deaths pass 33,000

    Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said 131 people were under investigation for their alleged responsibility in the construction of buildings that failed to withstand the quakes. While the quakes were powerful, many in Turkey blame faulty construction for multiplying the devastation.

  • ‘A crane, for God’s sake’: Inside the struggles of Turkey’s earthquake response

    Reuters spoke to dozens of residents and overwhelmed first-responders who expressed bewilderment at a lack of water, food, medicine, body bags and cranes in the disaster zone in the days following the quake - leaving hundreds of thousands of people to fend for themselves in the depths of winter.

  • Earthquake death toll tops 33,000, Turkey starts legal action

    Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble on Sunday, nearly a week after one of the worst earthquakes to hit Turkey and Syria, as Turkish authorities sought to maintain order across the disaster zone and began legal action over building collapses. With chances of finding more survivors growing more remote, the toll in both countries from Monday's earthquake and major aftershocks rose above 33,000 and looked set to keep growing. It was the deadliest quake in Turkey since 1939.

  • Quake relief shines light on GCC normalization with Syria, Turkey

    Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states are mobilizing to send aid to Syria and Turkey following the devastating Feb. 6 earthquakes. The dispatch of relief stands out given that the Syrian government has been largely isolated since the eruption of civil conflict in 2011. Similarly, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have in the wake of their normalization efforts with Turkey pledged humanitarian assistance.

  • Turkey earthquake: Three relief aid flights from Saudi Arabia en-route to Adana

    Monday’s quake, followed hours later by a second one almost as powerful, toppled thousands of buildings including hospitals, schools and apartment blocks, injured tens of thousands, and left countless people homeless in Turkey and northern Syria. The Saudi Press Agency reported on Friday that the three aid flights were carrying over 104 tons of relief material including food, tents, blankets, rugs, shelter bags and medicine, in addition to rescue teams.

  • Could Turkey’s deadly quakes be followed by more in the Middle East?

    About 900 years ago, there was a series of large-magnitude earthquakes that propagated from the East Anatolian fault, from north to south. The quakes ruptured the fault in the same area hit Monday. Over the decades, there were half a dozen powerful earthquakes, moving southward on the fault system through coastal Syria into Lebanon, Dolan said, ultimately “culminating in a very large earthquake on the Dead Sea Transform fault system in 1202, mainly centered in Lebanon but extending farther south.”

  • Turkey earthquake: How building negligence led to catastrophic outcomes

    In fact, after an investigation into the 1999 earthquake in Turkey, it was found that buildings in the city did not meet design requirements and were not earthquake resistant as required by the regulations. Several reports also mentioned that the country used poor construction material and were “shoddily constructed.” Multiple studies, including one from 2020 reiterated the caution, stating that multiple districts are vulnerable to earthquakes of more than 7.4 magnitudes.

  • Plight of homeless deepens as Turkey-Syria earthquake toll passes 17,000

    The plight of hundreds of thousands of people left homeless by earthquakes in Turkey and Syria grew more desperate on Thursday, while hopes faded of many more people being found alive amid the ruins of cities. The death toll from Monday's quakes, which struck in the early morning, passed 17,000 on Thursday across both countries. It was the biggest natural disaster to strike the region since 1999, when a similarly powerful quake killed more than 17,000 people in Turkey.

  • Search teams try to find Turkey and Syria quake survivors as death toll climbs

    Rescue workers in Turkey and Syria pushed into a third day of recovery operations on Wednesday as the death toll from this week's massive earthquake reached a grim milestone. Teams of workers were still trying to find more survivors from the early Monday morning quake as the death toll surpassed 11,000, The Associated Press reported. By midday Wednesday, Turkey's government reported 8,500 deaths in the country from the quake. In Syria, the death toll had reached 1,200 in government-held areas, and at least 1,400 in rebel-controlled regions.

  • Factbox: Turkey, Syria quake: international support and offers of aid

    Governments and international organisations from around the world have responded with offers of support after an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck central Turkey and northwest Syria. Below is a list of some of those announcements of support: