Turkey,OCTO 1 : Turkey’s interior minister on Sunday said two terrorists carried out a bomb attack in front of the ministry buildings in the heart of the Turkish capital, Ankara, hours before parliament was scheduled to reopen after a summer recess. One of the terrorists died in the explosion and the other was “neutralised” by […]Continue Reading
ANKARA, FEB. 27: A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook southern Turkey on Monday — three weeks after a catastrophic temblor devastated the region — causing some already damaged buildings to collapse, an official said. A father and daughter were reported trapped beneath the rubble of one building. Monday’s earthquake was centred in the town of Yesilyurt […]Continue Reading
ANTAKYA, FEB. 9: Thousands who lost their homes in a catastrophic earthquake huddled around campfires and clamoured for food and water in the bitter cold, three days after the temblor and a series of aftershocks hit Turkey and Syria, killing more than 19,300. Emergency crews used pick axes, shovels and jackhammers to dig through twisted […]Continue Reading
GAZIANTEP, FEB. 9: With the hope of finding survivors fading, stretched rescue teams in Turkey and Syria searched Wednesday for signs of life in the rubble of thousands of buildings toppled by the world’s deadliest earthquake in more than a decade. The confirmed death toll approached 12,000. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the especially […]Continue Reading
ADANA (Turkey), FEB. 7: Rescuers in Turkey and war-ravaged Syria searched through the frigid night into Tuesday, hoping to pull more survivors from the rubble after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed more than 4,000 people and toppled thousands of buildings across a wide region. Authorities feared the death toll from Monday’s pre-dawn earthquake and aftershocks […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, AUG 19: A rocket attack on a crowded market in a town held by Turkey-backed opposition fighters in northern Syria Friday killed at least nine people and wounded dozens, an opposition war monitor and a paramedic group reported. The attack on the town of al-Bab came days after a Turkish airstrike killed at […]Continue Reading
