The Latest Breaking News from Turkey

Determination to get donations to stricken areas is galvanising people haunted by fears for family and friends

Partner Claire Rupio told BBC News that she is 'praying' her partner will be found alive as she tearfully spoke about what she and her children have gone through this week

According to the latest official figures, the 7.7-magnitude earthquake - branded the "disaster of the century" by Turkish leader Recept Tayyip Erdogan - has claimed the lives of at least 17,674 people and another 3,377 in Syria

LOS ANGELES — As seismic engineers study the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria that killed more than 20,000 people this week, it's becoming clear that a significant cause of the destruction involved a building design common in California and other parts of the U.S.

A number of whales have washed up dead on the northern shores of Cyprus, authorities said on Friday, possibly affected by the massive earthquakes in neighbouring Turkey and Syria this week.

The new rules are designed to speed up deliveries.

Hundreds of thousands more people have been left homeless in often sub-zero winter conditions

The mother gave her young daughter a huge hug after being helped to freedom and safety

It didn’t take long for Syria’s Assad regime to seek political and economic benefit from the devastation of an earthquake. As emergency services were reaching victims of the 7.8-magnitude tremor on February 6, regime-linked organisations demanded governments “immediately end the siege and unilateral coercive economic sanctions imposed on Syria and…