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Turkey earthquake: Ankara may call for relocation of Syrian refugees from disaster zone – Levent Kemal / MIDDLE EAST EYE

"Turkish government to recommend Syrian refugees relocate to other cities but won't pay for their evacuation" reports Levent Kemal in the Middle East Eye...

Turkey cracks down on building contractors as quake death toll reaches grim milestone – Lauren Said-Moorhouse / CNN

"Turkish authorities have arrested or detained a number of property developers as the death toll from last week’s catastrophic earthquake soared past 36,000" reports Lauren...

Séisme en Turquie : les Chypriotes turcs pleurent leurs morts – Marie Jégo / LE MONDE

Marie Jégo écrit dans Le Monde, ce 13 février 2023 'Trente-neuf personnes, dont une vingtaine de collégiens originaires de la République turque de Chypre...

Séismes en Turquie et en Syrie : Bachar Al-Assad accepte d’ouvrir deux points de passage transfrontaliers pour acheminer l’aide humanitaire – LE MONDE

"La catastrophe naturelle a fait plus de 35 000 morts. Alors que l’Organisation des Nations unies a déclaré que le nombre de victimes pourrait encore...

Devastating Earthquakes in Turkey could fundamentally alter the political landscape – James Ryan / FPRI

"Opposition figures have made pointed accusations that state aid has been doled out on a partisan basis, raising the stakes of scheduled general elections...

Turkey earthquake death toll suggests lessons of 1999 were not learned – Bethan McKernan / THE GUARDIAN

"Stricter regulations were promised after quake two decades ago, but poor construction has played major role in latest disaster" Bethan McKernan analyzes in The...

Séismes en Turquie et en Syrie : « Ici, c’est facile d’avoir de l’aide, là-bas c’est impossible » – Assiya Hamza / FRANCE 24

"À Kilis, ville turque non loin de la frontière syrienne, les réfugiés ont durement vécu le violent tremblement de terre du 6 février. Pour...

Greece, Turkey Urge Better Relations After Quake – VOA

"Greece's foreign minister visited Turkey on Sunday in a show of support after the country was hit by a devastating earthquake last Monday, despite...

Turquie : un journaliste du « Point » arrêté à Istanbul et expulsé – Luc de Barochez / LE POINT

"Guillaume Perrier, envoyé pour couvrir les suites du séisme, a été contraint de rentrer en France. Une atteinte de plus à la liberté de...

How Corruption and Misrule Made Turkey’s Earthquake Deadlier – Gönül Tol / FOREIGN POLICY

"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hollowed out state institutions, placed loyalists in key positions, and enriched his cronies—paving the way for this tragedy." Gönül...

Earthquake compounds Turkish leader’s woes as election nears – Suzan Fraser & Zeynep Bilginsoy / AP NEWS

"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power 20 years ago riding a wave of public outrage toward the previous government’s handling of a...

Massive earthquake cost to deepen Turkey’s economic woes – Mustafa Sönmez / AL-MONITOR

"The disaster response requires a significant increase in public spending to meet the needs of 13.5 million affected people and rebuild massive destruction, threatening...

‘No More Antakya’: Turks Say Quake Wiped Out a City, and a Civilization – Vivian Yee & Nimet Kirac NY TIMES

"Amid scenes of utter devastation and widespread suffering in the bitter cold, residents mourned the loss of family, friends and memories" reports Vivian Yee and Nimet...

Freedom of speech or insulting? Why Charlie Hebdo’s earthquake cartoon is making Turkey mad – Kerem Congar / EURONEWS

"The French weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo's cartoon about the earthquake in Turkiye is continuing to receive negative criticism from all over the world." Kerem...

Greeks put politics aside to rush aid to Turkey – FRANCE 24

"NATO allies Greece and Turkey have a history of rivalry that goes back centuries. But the two countries that lie on seismic fault lines...

Demirtaş cautions against new state of emergency, says it can be used to ‘silence opposition’ – DUVAR English

Renowned Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş has urged caution against the government’s potential abuse of the new state of emergency rule in the 10 earthquake-stricken...

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Turkey’s president confronts disaster – Adam Samson and Laura Pitel / FINANCIAL TIMES

"The fallout of the catastrophic earthquake comes as the country’s leader faces his toughest re-election campaign yet" Adam Samson and Laura Pitel report in Financial Times on...

Anger grows at Erdoğan over Turkey’s earthquake response – Nektaria Stamouli / POLITICO

"The devastating earthquakes could delay upcoming elections as Turkey’s president faces backlash" Nektaria Stamouli reports in Politico on February 10, 2023. As the death toll...

Earthquake disaster poses ‘serious difficulties’ for Turkey’s May elections – Dominic Evans / REUTERS

"The devastating scale of Monday's earthquake in southern Turkey presents "serious difficulties" for planned elections in mid-May, a Turkish official said on Thursday, in the first...

Earthquakes in Turkey likely to have spillover effects on solving Russia-Ukraine conflict: experts – GLOBAL TIMES

"The earthquakes in Turkey are likely to have geopolitical and economic spillover effects including those on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and Europe's energy security,...

Séisme en Turquie : le Président Erdogan contraint de se défendre – Nicolas Bourcier / LE MONDE

"Dans les régions touchées par le tremblement de terre, les critiques montent contre les lacunes des secours et visent le chef de l’Etat, à...

Le séisme révèle le manque d’anticipation des autorités – Delphine Minoui / LE FIGARO

"Des experts dénoncent la corruption des promoteurs immobiliers et du gouvernement, dans ce pays à la croisée de trois plaques tectoniques" reports Delphine Minoui...

In Turkey’s devastating earthquake, it’s the poor paying the price again – Adnan R. Khan / THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Adnan R. Khan analyzes impacts of the earthquake in Turkey in The Globe and Mail on February 9, 2023. The scenes of destruction from...

Le Président Erdogan et les autorités critiqués après le tremblement de terre – RFI

"Le tremblement de terre, qui a eu lieu le lundi 6 février en Turquie et en Syrie, pourrait avoir des conséquences politiques pour le...

Call on Turkish authorities to abstain from further restrictions on media in the aftermath of devastating earthquakes – MEDIA FREEDOM RAPID REPONSE

This statement was coordinated by the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR), a Europe-wide mechanism which tracks, monitors and responds to violations of press and media freedom...

Twitter down in Turkey as quake response criticism mounts – LE MONDE

"Social media platform Twitter is no longer accessible in Turkey after Monday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks killed at least 11,200 people in southeastern...

La Turquie vit une sorte d’apocalypse – Entretien avec Nedim Gürsel / LE POINT

ENTRETIEN. L’écrivain natif de Gaziantep, ville endeuillée comme une grande partie de la Turquie par le tremblement de terre, pointe les enjeux politiques de...

After the Cataclysm, Politics – Marc Pierini / CARNEGIE

"The impact of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria will continue to be felt in the year to come." Marc Pierini's analysis in Carnegie...

A monumental crisis and a political test for Erdoğan – Howard Eissenstat / MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE

"The earthquakes that shook Turkey and Syria in the early hours of Feb. 6 represent a shocking human tragedy, with casualties already in the...

Turkey’s Earthquake: The Buck Stops with Erdogan – Sinan Ciddi / FDD

"Ankara has to answer why it wasn’t prepared for the earthquake that has devastated Turkey, and what will its response be over the coming...

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