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Reporter’s Notebook: A week of up-close horrors and heroics in the Turkish earthquake zone
ISKENDERUN, Turkey – It hung in the air of the streets of the Turkish city of Iskenderun Monday. The smell of ...

Trauma haunts Turkish kids after quake-
By AFP Serkan Tatoglu is haunted by the question his six-year-old keeps asking since their house collapsed in last week’s ...

Turkish town counts its dead as earthquake death toll hits 21,000-
By AFP NURDAGI: During an “agonising” 10- minute wait, the jackhammers and excavators fell silent, traffic on a four-lane highway ...

Turkish President Erdogan faces earthquake victim’s fury-
By AFP ADIYAMAN: Hakan Tanriverdi has a simple message for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan days after Turkey suffered its worst ...

Turkish leader admits ‘shortcomings’ as quake toll tops 15,000-
By AFP ANTAKYA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday conceded “shortcomings” after criticism of his government’s response to the ...

Iranian-backed militia launches rockets at Turkish base in northern Iraq
A cluster of rockets targeted a Turkish military base in northern Iraq on Wednesday, officials from northern Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish ...

Earthquake with 5.9 magnitude strikes Greek island of Rhodes, Turkish coast
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 struck Wednesday off the southeastern Greek island of Rhodes, according to ...

Turkish President Erdogan warns Sweden on NATO after ‘burning Quran’ outside embassy-
By AFP ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Sweden on Monday that it should not expect his backing to ...

Turkish court convicts the president of the country’s medical association of terror charge
A court convicted the president of the Turkish Medical Association on Wednesday of disseminating “terror organization propaganda” following a trial ...