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Turkey arrests 10 people due to ‘provocative’ posts about earthquake

Turkish courts have ruled for the arrest of 10 social media users due to their “provocative” posts on social media about a powerful earthquake...

Erdoğan admits earthquake rescue effort not as quick as hoped

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan admitted for the first time Friday that his government's search and rescue effort from this week's devastating earthquake was...

World Bank announces $1.78 billion in aid to Turkey for recovery after earthquake

The World Bank on Thursday announced $1.78 billion in aid to Turkey to help relief and recovery efforts after a massive earthquake hit the...

Outlawed Kurdish militant group suspends ‘operations’ after Turkey earthquake

Outlawed Kurdish militants are temporarily suspending "operations" in Turkey after the massive quake in the country and Syria, Agence France-Presse reported, citing a Kurdistan...

[OPINION] The unbearable cost of authoritarianism

Ali Dinçer* The keyword is “efficiency.” Whether we are talking about a highly individualized one-man rule or a relatively institutional one-party state, the strongest selling...

[ANALYSIS] Major earthquake in Turkey has exposed dysfunction of AFAD and the military

Fatih Yurtsever* A 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck southeastern Turkey on Monday and was one of the strongest in a century has caused unprecedented damage in...

EU expresses ‘full solidarity’ with Turkey after deadly earthquakes

The 27 leaders of the European Union wrote to their Turkish counterpart, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Thursday to express their "full solidarity" and...

Turkish hospital car park becomes makeshift morgue after earthquake

Rania Zaboubi scours body bags laid out in the car park of a hospital in southern Turkey in search of her uncle who went...

Deadly earthquake puts Erdoğan under pressure in May polls

The stakes could hardly be higher for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Just three months before the biggest test of his political career, a massive...

Twitter back online in Turkey after restrictions

Twitter was blocked for at least 12 hours on major Turkish mobile providers in an outage that ended early Thursday, following a flurry of...

Tsunamis, abandoned children: misinformation rampant after Turkey earthquake

Social media has been rife with misinformation and misattributed pictures and videos, including ones of a "tsunami" and a child mourning his parents, since...

Turkey rejected earthquake assistance from Cyprus: report

Cyprus expressed its readiness to assist in rescue efforts after a devastating earthquake in Turkey on Monday, but Turkey has refused to accept help...

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