The Latest Breaking News from Türkiye

Egypt's foreign minister met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday in the first visits to Syria and Türkiye by a top Egyptian diplomat in a decade. Assad has benefited from an outpouring of Arab support since devastating earthquakes hit his country and neighboring Türkiye…

In a display of solidarity, fans of Turkish football club Beşiktaş throw toys onto the pitch at the 4:17 mark of the game — the exact time the first earthquake struck Türkiye and Syria on February 6.

Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers have witnessed a sharp decrease in their levels in the south of the country, officials said Sunday, pledging to take urgent measures to ease water shortages. In Nasiriyah, capital of the southern province of Dhi Qar, an AFP photographer saw the river bed of the…

At least 58 migrants died when their wooden boat smashed into rocky reefs and broke apart off southern Italy before dawn Sunday, the Italian coast guard and UN agencies said. Survivors indicated that dozens more could be missing from the boat that had set out from Türkiye. The Italian Coast…

Türkiye has arrested 184 people suspected of responsibility for the collapse of buildings in this month's earthquakes and investigations are widening, a minister said on Saturday, as anger simmers over what many see as corrupt building practices. Overnight, the death toll from the earthquakes, the most powerful of which struck…

Schools resumed classes in Syria’s opposition-held northwest Saturday after closing for nearly three weeks following an earthquake that devastated the region, local officials said, even as many schoolchildren suffer from shock. Many schools were turned into temporary shelters following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Türkiye and neighboring parts of…

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Central Türkiye on Saturday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km, EMSC said. The combined death toll in Türkiye and Syria from a devastating earthquake earlier this month surpassed 50,000. The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) announced…

Head of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) Ilham Ahmed said cooperating with the Damascus regime “unconditionally” will only grant it some form of legitimacy and will not lead to a political solution to the Syrian conflict. Her remarks reflect the SDC’s opposition to Arab and regional efforts to normalize ties…

Many Syrians who went to Türkiye — which is home to more than three-and-a-half million refugees — to escape the civil war, say the earthquakes were even more frightening than the conflict.

Turkish authorities on Friday said preliminary work has started to build housing for people left homeless by the massive earthquake that hit parts of the country and neighboring Syria, killing tens of thousands. Murat Kurum, the minister for the environment, urbanization and climate change, said on Twitter that excavations were…

Turkish forces have killed the alleged mastermind behind a deadly Istanbul street bombing in an operation in northern Syria, Türkiye’s state-run news agency reported. The man, identified as Halil Menci, was “neutralized” in an operation by Turkish intelligence agents, The Associated Press quoted the agency as saying. It did not…