Turkey: In the country’s Kurdish heartland, distrust erodes peace process hopes
DAREN BUTLER, of Reuters, reports on the unease being felt among Kurds waiting to see what the fragile peace process may bring…
Updated: Rescuers dig through rubble as Turkey-Syria quake death toll passes 7,800
Updated: 10:45am, 8th February (AEST) Antakya, Turkey Reuters The death toll of a devastating earthquake in southern Turkey and Syria jumped to more than 7,800 people on Tuesday as rescuers worked against time in harsh winter conditions to dig survivors out of the rubble of collapsed buildings. As the scale of the disaster became ever […]
Updated: Major earthquake kills 3,700 in Turkey and Syria, weather hits survivors
Updated: 9:10am, 7th February, 2023 (AEST) Kahramanmaras, Turkey/Damascus, Syria Reuters A huge earthquake killed more than 3,700 people across a swathe of Turkey and north-west Syria on Monday, with freezing winter weather adding to the plight of the thousands left injured or homeless and hampering efforts to find survivors. The magnitude 7.8 quake brought down […]
TURKEY: KOREAN CHRISTIAN MURDERED FOR MOBILE PHONE IN COUNTRY’S SOUTH-EAST
BARBARA G BAKER, of World Watch Monitor, looks at the murder of South Korean Christian Jin-Wook Kim in Turkey last month as church leaders call for a transparent investigation…