Up to 75,000 buildings across the affected earthquake zone in southern Turkey have been given construction amnesties, according to Pelin Pınar Giritlioğlu, Istanbul head of the Union of Chambers ...

Turkey lies in one of the world's most active earthquake zones. In 1999 a deadly quake killed more than 17,000 in the north-west. The country's worst earthquake disaster was in 1939 when 33,000 ...

This area of Turkey is prone to earthquakes as it lies at the intersection ... The movement of the tectonic plates builds up pressure on fault zones at their boundaries. It is the sudden release ...

more used to emergencies in a war zone at home, have brought their skills to the devastation caused from a massive earthquake in Turkey to search flattened buildings for survivors, erect tents and ...

Haktan and Enes Ozyildiz are seniors at Easton Area High School who raised $2,250 to help orphaned children an ocean away.

Photo: AP Photo/Khalil Hamra A second Dutch flight has arrived in southern Turkey carrying rescue workers and 15 tonnes of equipment to ... whose interview was interrupted by a phone call with news ...

Erdogan thanks Russia for helping Turkish citizens in post-earthquake relief Russia to supply Turkey with building materials for post-earthquake recovery — Putin Another batch of relief aid ...

This is the tense moment a TV presenter was spotted taking deep breaths during a live broadcast as a 6.1 magnitude earthquake ...

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Latest stories and updates on the 7.0 magnitude earthquake which has rocked Turkey and Greece. Four-year-old Ayda Gezgin was pulled out of the wreckage of a building in Izmir, Turkey following a 7 ...