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'We finally saw her hand': Hungarian rescuer recalls saving girl after Turkey earthquake

For Viktor Holczer, a Hungarian IT expert, Turkey was the first major rescue mission in which he took part as a volunteer. And he will always remember the moment when he grabbed the hand of 17-year-old Asya, rescued from the rubble almost four days after last week's quake.

Reuters

Turkish earthquake unlikely to affect outbound market

The earthquake in Turkey and Syria has not affected outbound tours as the incident took place in an area that does not include major tourism destinations, and the market was already sluggish due to political unrest.

Bangkok Post

Capital FM DJ issues grovelling apology after backlash for sick Turkey earthquake joke

Capital FM radio DJ Ant Payne has apologised after bring heavily criticised on social media after he appeared on the radio station and encouraged listeners to make the most of cheap flights to Turkey

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UN says Syria agrees to open 2 new crossings for quake aid

The United Nations says Syria’s president has agreed to open two new crossing points from Turkey to the country’s rebel-held northwest to deliver desperately needed aid and equipment fon millions of earthquake victims

The Independent UK

UN chief says Syria's Assad agrees to expand UN aid access from Turkey

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to allow UN aid deliveries to opposition-held northwest Syria through two additional border crossings from Turkey for three months, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday.

Reuters

France, Spain and Turkey travel advice updated for holidaymakers heading abroad

The UK's Foreign Office has recently updated its travel advice for three major holiday hotspots.

Daily Record

Rescue phase ‘comes to a close’ in Turkey-Syria quake disaster

Stories of miraculous rescues flooded the airwaves in recent days, but tens of thousands of dead have also been found.

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Turkey and Syria earthquake: Long-term funding is needed to support search-and-rescue after major disasters

The strong and disastrous earthquake that shook southern Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6 drew attention to search-and-rescue (SAR) operations. The media’s attention raised familiar questions around SAR, including who conducts SAR, what formal and informal SAR teams are available, and how long trapped people are able to survive before…

The Conversation

Videos show Turkey's Erdogan boasted letting builders avoid earthquake codes

Videos have surfaced in Turkish media of the president in 2019 praising a policy that let builders off the hook for skirting safety codes that could have made buildings more quake resistant.

WEKU

Waiting into the night for a miracle rescue in Turkey’s Antakya

A week after earthquakes struck, Turkish rescue crews refuse to give up and find a teenage girl in the rubble.

Al Jazeera

Is Turkey’s Istanbul ready for a major earthquake?

Scientists say the megalopolis of 16 million people should get ready now for the inevitability of a powerful quake.

Al Jazeera

The Guardian view on earthquake aid for northern Syria: the UN must step up

Editorial: A way must be found to open up cross-border routes from Turkey and deliver help to a forgotten region

The Guardian - UK

Twitter's plan to charge for crucial tool prompts outcry

In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, thousands of volunteer software developers have been using a crucial Twitter tool to comb the platform for calls for help — including people posting their location inside collapsed buildings — and connect people with rescue organizations to help them

The Independent UK

Children killed in earthquake on school trip to Turkey buried in 24 back-to-back funerals

Pupils, aged 11 to 14, were on a school volleyball trip and staying in Adiyaman when disaster struck

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Manchester Evening News

Incredible moment heroic Greater Manchester firefighter helps rescue woman trapped below Turkish earthquake rubble

Steve Pennington was among a team of rescue workers who spent 17 hours tracking the woman's voice through the wreckage before carrying her to safety

Reuters

Germany says Finland, Sweden NATO bids must be ratified without delay

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called on Turkey and Hungary to pave the way for Finland and Sweden to join NATO, stating she expects all NATO members to ratify their bids to join the defence alliance "without further delay".

Belfast Live

Turkey earthquake: Belfast woman's heartache as husband living in tent after disaster

The family have lost everything

Reuters

Excavators start removing debris in Turkish region hit by earthquake

Excavators began removing debris from an urban area in Turkey's southern Hatay province that was devastated by last week's massive earthquake, drone footage showed on Monday, as the operation to find survivors started drawing to a close.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Syria’s Health Workers Hit by Double Tragedy after Quake

While his wife and two daughters lay under the rubble after Syria's earthquake, Abdelbaset Khalil tended to hundreds of patients who flooded into his hospital. Khalil, a nurse anaesthetist, was already at work when the 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Türkiye and Syria last week, flattening entire neighborhoods and leaving a combined…

Chronicle Live

Spain, France and Turkey update travel rules for any Brits going on holiday

Travel advice for the holiday hotspots has been updated following a national emergency and changes to Covid rules

The Independent UK

Russian hackers ‘disrupt Turkey-Syria earthquake aid’ in cyber attack on Nato

The Killnet group reportedly claimed responsibility

Daily Record

West Lothian steps up to help earthquake victims

Over 500 bags of clothing and bedding will soon be on the way to Turkey and Syria

Reuters

Earthquake fans anti-Syrian sentiment in Turkey amid desperate conditions

The devastating earthquake to hit Turkey and Syria has fanned resentment among some Turks towards the millions of Syrian refugees in the country who are being blamed anecdotally by some for looting amid the destruction and chaos.

France 24

Faster and cheaper: Turkey's construction sector blamed for scale of earthquake devastation

Developers in Turkey’s construction sector are in the hot seat and dozens have been arrested following the earthquakes that caused the collapse of thousands of multi-storey buildings and individual houses on February 6, killing tens of thousands. FRANCE 24's Shona Bhattacharyya, Ludovic de Foucaud and Hussein Asad report from Osmaniye,…

Liverpool Echo

Man heard screams before line went dead as friend called from Syria earthquake zone

Man who fled Syria due to war in 2013 is raising funds to help relief efforts following the earthquake in Syria and Turkey

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