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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (hird row, fourth from right) and the head of the nationalist MHP party Devlet Bahceli (to his right) with rescue team members at Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) coordination centre in Adiyaman on February 27.

Erdogan jittery after Türkiye earthquake, desperate to salvage political fortunes

Even before the quake, the outcome of elections scheduled for May had been eagerly awaited.
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Sham Sheikh Mohammed, a nine-year-old Syrian girl, arrives at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing ahead of entering Türkiye for treatment on February 23. Sham’s fate captured the tragedy, hope, and heartbreak of the earthquake after she spent 40 hours under the rubble before being rescued and taken to Türkiye.

International community ignores quake-hit Syria, its dead and the dying

More than 6,000 deaths estimated in earthquake-affected region of Syria.
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Arda Oktay, who is rescued along with his family, waves as he is carried to an ambulance after being rescued alive from rubble, in the aftermath of the earthquake in Iskenderun, Türkiye.

Türkiye-Syria earthquake: ‘It looked like a nuclear bomb had been dropped’

The February 6 earthquake has killed more than 20,000 people and affected around 12 million.
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