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A child has been saved from the rubble of a building that collapsed after the massive earthquake hit Turkey and Syria on Monday. Footage shows a rescue team searching in the rubble of a building in Syria's Azaz, Reuters reports. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyjinStvrrY The...

Video footage emerged from Turkey of a building collapsing hours after the massive earthquake struck in the southeast of the country. The building was in the city of Urfa, officially known as Sanlıurfa, near the epicenter of the magnitude 7.8...

Greece vowed on Monday morning to help Turkey in the aftermath of the massive earthquake that has killed more than 4,500 people so far in the southeast of the country and Syria. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tweeted that "Greece is...

More than 4,500 people have been killed and scores have been injured in Turkey and Syria after two powerful earthquakes on Monday within the space of 12 hours. The first quake struck as people slept, and measured magnitude 7.8, one...

U.S. Senators sent on Thursday a letter to President Biden expressing concern about Turkey’s continued delays around ratifying the NATO accession protocols for Sweden and Finland. The bipartisan initiative led by Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) states that...

Turkey has accused the U.S. of favoring Greece and losing its "neutrality" if Congress approves the sale of F-35 fighter jets to Greece and opposes Turkey's F-16 purchase. Turkey's Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalın warned on Tuesday that this would be...

Turkey condemned the decision by the UN Security Council on Monday to renew the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in Cyprus for another year. "In view of the prevailing conditions on the island, it is necessary to keep the...

The U.S. embassy in Turkey issued a warning on Monday about possible attacks against churches, synagogues and diplomatic missions following Quran-burning incidents in Europe. It is the second warning issued by the U.S. in the last four days. The alert...

On Monday, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez expressed his clear opposition to the sale of F-16 fighter aircraft to Turkey. Speaking to Mega TV, he said that the U.S. State Department should adopt a firmer stance toward...

On Thursday, Fahrettin Altun, the communication director of Turkey, slammed the London-based weekly The Economist for creating "cheap propaganda" on the country. The cover of this week's magazine is titled "Turkey's looming dictatorship." The Economist is calling on outsiders to...