The Latest Breaking News from Turkey

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Big news events now flash by us, from one to the next, leaving a list of heroes and villains. And the bar keeps rising.

Freezing winter weather conditions and the scale of the destruction have hampered ongoing rescue efforts.

A sense of togetherness and unity can be found in an unassuming Leith Walk hub, where thousands of items of clothing and essentials have been collected and processed.

The president has admitted some issues with the speed of help arriving in devastated areas, but it has done little to calm survivors who have lost loved ones and their homes, writes Borzou Daragahi

British-Turkish actor Tamer Hassan has revealed members of his family are lost in the rubble of the earthquakes that have killed more than 17,000 people in Turkey and Syria.

The Waeve, The Big Pink and Gia Ford will perform to raise funds for those affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria

As rescue workers continued to search for survivors of the earthquake that happened on February 6, residents of Syria’s northwestern opposition-controlled territories were forced to start digging mass graves to bury victims. In this virtually cut-off region, morgues have become overcrowded and equipment is hard to come by.

One Australian has been found safe in Turkey after a devastating earthquake but two nationals remain unaccounted for.