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Turkey earthquake: The eyewitnesses who captured the quake on social media

6Feb

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Syria, Turkey

Turkey earthquake: The eyewitnesses who captured the quake on social media

Image caption,An aerial view of collapsed buildings in the Turkish city of Hatay By Kirstie Brewer & Paul Kerley BBC News The sheer scale of the devastation of the earthquake and its aftershocks can be seen in social media photos and videos posted by people in Turkey and Syria. Eyewitnesses have also been speaking about what happened. BBC News has been pulling together and verifying information. The tremors of the main quake - which happened at 04:17 local time - were felt more than a hundred miles in each direction from the epicentre - across southern Turkey and in northern Syria. Witnesses described being shaken from their sleep and running to their cars for safety from the damaged buildings. "I have never felt anything like it in the 40 years I've lived," said Erd...

Turkey earthquake: Where did it hit and why was it so deadly?

6Feb

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Syria, Turkey

Turkey earthquake: Where did it hit and why was it so deadly?

Turkey–Syria earthquakes 2023 By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent More than 5,000 people have been killed and thousands injured by a huge earthquake which struck south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, in the early hours of Monday morning. The earthquake, which hit near the town of Gaziantep, was closely followed by numerous aftershocks - including one quake which was almost as large as the first. Why was it so deadly? It was a big earthquake - registered as 7.8, classified as "major" on the official magnitude scale. It broke along about 100km (62 miles) of fault line, causing serious damage to buildings near the fault. Prof Joanna Faure Walker, head of the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction at University College London, said: "Of the deadlies...

23Jan

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Turkey

Türkiye reiterates proposal for Finland

Unbundling its NATO bid from Sweden’s would help Helsinki gain Ankara’s consent, Foreign Minister Cavusoglu has said FILE PHOTO: Mevlut Cavusoglu speaks at a press conference. © Adem ALTAN / AFP Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu suggested a solution to help Finland improve its chances to have its NATO application approved by his nation’s parliament – seeking accession without fellow candidate Sweden, he said. “If the two countries want to follow a separate procedure, we said that we look at Finland more positively,” the minister said on Tuesday, as quoted by Turkish media. He was speaking at a press conference during a visit to Hungary. Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto indicated last week that his country was considering the option...

Turkish peace efforts in Ukraine deserve Nobel Prize – Hungarian FM

23Jan

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Turkey, Ukraine

Turkish peace efforts in Ukraine deserve Nobel Prize – Hungarian FM

Recep Tayyip Erdogan deserves the award for his efforts to negotiate a resolution to the conflict, Peter Szijjarto said Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves to the crowd during a welcome ceremony in Sarajevo, Bosnia, September 6, 2022 © AP / Armin Durgut Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has declared that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan should be considered for a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to broker an end to the hostilities in Ukraine Speaking at a press conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Tuesday, Szijjarto praised Erdogan’s role in negotiating the Black Sea grain deal, and his hosting of ultimately fruitless peace talks between Moscow and Kiev last year. “Anyone who talks about peace is immediately presented as an al...

Zionist Bolton: Turkiye should be expelled from NATO for ‘not acting like an ally’

17Jan

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Turkey, USA

Zionist Bolton: Turkiye should be expelled from NATO for ‘not acting like an ally’

John Bolton: Turkiye should be expelled from NATO for 'not acting like an ally' Former US National Security Adviser John Bolton, 23 March 2018 [John Bolton/Wikipedia] A former United States' National Security Advisor has called on the NATO military alliance to expel Turkiye and give support to its opposition parties, accusing it of not acting like an ally. In an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal, John Bolton – National Security Advisor to the administration of former US President Donald Trump – criticised Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan's "divisive and dangerous" performance and "belligerent regional policies". Accusing Erdogan of "subverting key elements of Turkiye's post-Ottoman secular constitution to repeatedly compromising its financial system an...

Iran and Turkey give Washington’s Kurdish proxies a rough ride in Iran and Syria

11Jan

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Iran, Syria, Turkey, USA

Iran and Turkey give Washington’s Kurdish proxies a rough ride in Iran and Syria

Failing US hegemony is making itself felt in some surprising ways – and none of them bode well for the imperialists. As the decline in US fortunes continues, all Uncle Sam’s many and various proxy forces in the Middle East are feeling the chill wind of betrayal by their weakening master. As so often before, it is once again the Kurds who are feeling this abandonment most keenly, as the West first flatters Kurdish national sentiments to draw them into a devil’s bargain, and then reneges on all its promises when the wind changes. What is new is the unexpected combination of forces facing down these proxy actors. Recent weeks have seen what looks very much like a coordinated pushback by decidedly odd bedfellows Iran and Turkey, targeting (a) armed Iranian Kurdish enemies of ...

Leaders of Turkey, Syria may meet to discuss peace, stability

4Jan

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Russia, Syria, Turkey

Leaders of Turkey, Syria may meet to discuss peace, stability

Press TV Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed the possibility of meeting with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in forthcoming talks with Russia to discuss peace and stability in the region and in the Arab country. Erdogan said on Thursday that a trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers from Turkey, Russia and Syria would first be held to further develop contacts after last week’s landmark talks between the defense ministers of the three countries in Moscow. “We will bring our foreign ministers together and then, depending on developments, we may come together as the Russian, Turkish, and Syrian leaders. So, our aim is to establish peace and stability in the region,” Erdogan said at a meeting of his Justice and Development (AK) Party in the capital A...

Iran and Turkey hit Washington’s Kurdish proxies in Iraq and Syria

13Dec

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Iran, Syria, Turkey, USA

Iran and Turkey hit Washington’s Kurdish proxies in Iraq and Syria

Failing US hegemony is making itself felt in some surprising ways – and none of them bode well for the imperialists. Proletarian writers A Kurdish armoured vehicle is destroyed by a Turkish strike in Syria. Moves by Turkey towards breaking free of the role of unquestioning US proxy must surely be welcome to anti-imperialists, no matter what has motivated such action. As the decline in US fortunes continues, all Uncle Sam’s many and various proxy forces in the middle east are feeling the chill wind of betrayal by their weakening master. As so often before, it is once again the Kurds who are feeling this abandonment most keenly, as the west first flatters Kurdish national sentiments to draw them into a devil’s bargain, and then reneges on all its promises whe...

Europe wary of Turkish hub to hide gas ‘made in Moscow’

1Dec

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Europe, Russia, Turkey

Europe wary of Turkish hub to hide gas ‘made in Moscow’

BY SPEECHIFY Already have Rappler+? Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism. INFO FacebookTwitterCopy URL Without being specific, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said a gas hub could be set up in Turkey relatively quickly, and predicted customers in Europe would want to sign contracts MOSCOW, Russia – President Vladimir Putin’s plan to make Turkey a hub for Russian gas in theory could allow Moscow to mask its exports with fuel from other sources, but that might not be enough to persuade Europeans to buy, analysts and sources said. Russia supplied 40% of the European Union gas market until Moscow on February 24 sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in what it calls a “special military operation.” Since then, the West has introduced&nb...

Turkey is about to invade Syria, and the US won’t do much to stop it

27Nov

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Syria, Turkey

Turkey is about to invade Syria, and the US won’t do much to stop it

The war in Ukraine has forced Washington to recalibrate its priorities when it comes to its relationship with Ankara.By: Connor Echols Two weeks ago, a massive explosion rocked a busy road in Istanbul, killing six people and wounding more than 80. Within hours, Turkish authorities blamed the deadly attack on the YPG, a Syrian Kurdish group that has worked closely with the United States in the fight against ISIS. Turkey’s response has been emphatic. After accusing Washington of being complicit in the attack, Ankara has carried out a series of air raids against Kurdish military targets in Iraq and northern Syria, some of which are also occupied by American soldiers. It looks like those strikes are just the beginning. Turkish leaders are now suggesting t...