The Latest Breaking News from Turkey

Even as rescuers rush to arrive, it's often locals who can best offer immediate help, experts say. And they say governments in devastated areas often fail to realize the scope and respond immediately.

Here’s a round-up of Al Jazeera’s Middle East coverage this week.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday the "time is now" for Turkey to ratify applications by Finland and Sweden to join the defence alliance.

A 17-year-old woman was rescued on Thursday from the rubble of a building that collapsed in the southern central province of Kahramanmaras, 248 hours after a massive earthquake struck the area this week, killing more than 40,000 people in Turkey and Syria.

A mother and her two children were miraculously pulled alive from the rubble 228 hours after the first Turkey earthquake struck.

Turkey’s disaster management agency has raised the number of fatalities in in the country from two quakes that struck nine hours apart last week to 36,187

Listeners were left horrified by the ‘ill timed’ remark

A devastating earthquake that toppled buildings across parts of Turkey and neighboring Syria has revived a longstanding debate locally and in neighboring Cyprus about a large nuclear power station being built on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coastline

The February 6 earthquakes that killed more than 40,000 people in Turkey and Syria could result in a loss of up to 1% of the Turkish gross domestic product (GDP), said an economic report published on Thursday. It came amid uncertainties over a possible delay of general elections, set for…

A leading non-government organisation is pleading with businesses and the public to continue helping fund earthquake recovery efforts in Turkey and Syria.

As hope fades of bringing more survivors out alive from the ruins, boxer Amir Khan says help is on its ways with millions of people across Syria and Turkey requiring humanitarian aid