Turkish Agriculture Minister’s comments on deadly floods draw backlash
Turkey's Agriculture and Forestry Minister Vahit Kirişçi said that as a result of the recent deadly floods in the southeast ...
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Turkey’s earthquake survivors asked to vacate touristic facilities they are using as shelters
Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) has asked survivors of the 6 February twin earthquakes to vacate tourism facilities ...
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Earthquake survivors in Turkey suffer from lack of clean water
There is a severe lack of clean water in the quake-hit provinces in Turkey, according to the latest reports from ...
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Earthquake survivors suffer as pro-Turkish gov’t media praises ‘normalisation’
The elderly, women and disabled in Pazarcık (Bazarcix), the epicentre of Turkey’s 6 February double earthquake, spoke to Mezopotamya Agency ...
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Study reveals Turkey’s earthquake lasted 80 seconds, with three shocks
The first tremor of the two major earthquakes, which had a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale, occurred on ...
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Policies in Turkey caused massive disaster: KCK Executive Mustafa Karasu
Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council Member Mustafa Karasu said on Saturday that Turkey’s state organisation collapsed in the earthquake ...
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Turkish authorities confiscate pro-Kurdish HDP’s earthquake aid
The Pazarcık (Bazarcix) District Governorship of the southeastern province of Kahramanmaraş (Mereş), one of Turkey's most affected provinces by the ...
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Turkey’s earthquake death-toll nears 30,000 as more proof of bewildering state negligence surfaces
The death toll of Monday’s twin earthquakes that hit 10 provinces in southern Turkey has reached 29,605 according to the ...
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Medya News Daily Review: 10 February 2023
Search and rescue efforts continue on the fifth day after the devastating twin earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria. The ...
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Morgue capacity exceeded in earthquake zone, bodies ‘pile up’: reports
Emergency needs are not met in 10 predominantly Kurdish and Alevi-populated provinces in southeastern Turkey following Monday's major earthquakes. On ...
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