The Latest Breaking News from Turkey

Here’s a roundup of Al Jazeera’s Middle East coverage this week.

The UK’s International Search and Rescue Team have begun operations in disaster zone.

Turkey is grappling with one of the biggest challenges from the earthquake that flattened a swathe of its towns and cities: how to shelter hundreds of thousands of people left homeless in the middle of winter.

Rescuers from the occupied Palestinian territories are joining international efforts to bring quake survivors to safety.

The death toll passed 19,000 on Thursday morning, as the WHO fears that numbers could reach 20,000

Twitter was blocked in Turkey on Feb. 8, 2023, according to internet monitoring service NetBlocks. The outage came amid the massive rescue operation and humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of the earthquakes in southern Turkey and northern Syria two days earlier. Access to Twitter appeared to be restored about 12…

The mega-quakes in Turkey this week showcase how a magnitude 7.8 quake could trigger a magnitude 7.5 aftershock on a different fault, with 60 miles of distance between the epicenters.

Turkey's decision to block access to Twitter for about 12 hours from Wednesday afternoon to early Thursday as people scrambled to find loved ones after devastating earthquakes has compounded public frustration at the pace of relief efforts.

Rescuers searching the collapsed hotel that had left members of a school volleyball team trapped following Monday's devastating earthquake have now found three bodies