ANKARA, March 25 — For Nurettin Ozdemir, a grocery shop worker in the Turkish capital of Ankara, this year's Ramadan is different from that of previous years, as Turkiye is yet to recover from massive earthquakes that claimed more than 50,000 lives.

ANKARA, March 20 — The death toll from powerful earthquakes that struck southern Turkiye last month has risen to 50,096, an official from the nation’s disaster agency said on Monday.

WASHINGTON, Feb 23 — The death toll from the powerful February 6 earthquakes in southern Turkiye has risen to 43,556, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said Wednesday.

ANKARA, Feb 22 — At least 42,310 people have been killed by two strong earthquakes that jolted southern Türkiye on February 6, the country’s disaster management agency said Tuesday.

ANKARA, Feb 17 — Turkiye's ruling Justice and Development Party is not discussing a postponement of the general election due to the earthquake, with the two date options on the table remaining unchanged, reported Sputnik, quoting Turkish newspaper Hurriyet on Friday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 15 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has expressed Malaysia’s solidarity as Turkiye’s friend during difficult times as well as its undivided commitment, especially in helping the Turkish people affected by the recent earthquake.

GENEVA, Feb 15 — The impact of last week’s deadly earthquakes in Turkiye and Syria was discussed at the UN on Tuesday, reported Anadolu Agency.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 14 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said Malaysia is giving special attention to the Turkiye - Syria earthquake because it is the worst disaster in history, apart from the tsunami that hit Acheh.

JAKARTA, Feb 14 — Indonesia evacuated 120 of its citizens as well as two Malaysians and a Burmese national, who were trapped in several regions in the aftermath of the deadly earthquakes in Turkiye early last week.

ANKARA, Feb 13 — At least 31,643 people in Turkiye were killed by two strong earthquakes that jolted the country’s southern areas on Feb 6, the disaster agency said on Monday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 13 — The Malaysian government is engaging with the Syria Embassy here on the best possible options to deliver relief assistance to the affected areas in the wake of the two massive earthquakes centred in southern Turkiye, which also severely hit Syria.

GAZIANTEP, Feb 12 — The Malaysian MAS-01 Smart and MAS-10 teams, on the seventh day of search-and-rescue efforts following the deadly earthquake in Turkiye, will focus on scouring collapsed buildings and rubble around Nurdagi, in the hope of finding more survivors.

ANTAKYA,/JANDARIS, Feb 12 — Exhausted rescuers pulled dwindling numbers of survivors from earthquake rubble in Turkiye and Syria on Saturday (February 11), five days after one of the region's worst natural disasters whose death toll neared 26,000 and looked set to rise far higher.

GAZIANTEP, Feb 12 — Members of the Special Malaysia Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (Smart) were struck by disbelief and shock when they discovered and rescued five members of a family who were trapped in the rubble of their residential building for the past six days on Saturday as a result of the devastating earthquake that hit this area.

ROME, Feb 9 — The energy released by twin earthquakes that hit the 10 southern provinces of Türkiye was 130 times stronger than the one that occurred in Italy in 2016, a prominent Italian scientist said.

ANKARA, Feb 9 — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that it was impossible to get prepared for a calamity like the earthquakes that struck the country on Monday (February 6) and left more than 9,000 people dead, but he vowed to exert utmost efforts to save citizens' lives.

WASHINGTON, Feb 9 — US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that the devastating earthquake that struck Türkiye and Syria this week was "one of the worst" in the region.

DAMASCUS, Feb 9 — The UN Resident Coordinator in Syria, Mostafa Benlamlih said the sanctions imposed on Syria hinder the humanitarian work in it, indicating that the situation now is very difficult and the humanitarian issue in it must not be politicised.

KAHRAMANMARAS/ANTAKYA, Feb 8 — Families in southern Türkiye and Syria spent a second night in the freezing cold on Wednesday as overwhelmed rescuers raced to pull people from the rubble two days after a massive earthquake that killed more than 9,600 people.

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