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2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake

Dr Cecilia Fan (centre), talks with other members of Hong Kong’s rescue team amid relief efforts in Turkey last year. Photo: Handout

Hong Kong society

Hong Kong doctor feted for quake relief work in Turkey calls for more to join call

Dr Cecilia Fan hopes sharing her experiences of helping survivors after last February’s earthquake in Turkey will encourage more medical specialists to join relief efforts.

2 Jan 2024 - 7:30AM

Turkey

‘We’re very happy with her’: Syrian baby born under quake rubble turns 6 months

6 Aug 2023 - 1:25PMvideocam

Science

Could Chinese researchers crack the code of earthquake prediction?

5 Sep 2023 - 9:47AMvideocam

Hong Kong society

‘I’ll never forget’: Hong Kong health workers recall Turkey quake mission

Food and water shortages, language barriers among hurdles faced by team, medical workers tasked with taking care of members’ health say.

21 Jul 2023 - 7:00AM

Dr Cecilia Fan was among a 59-strong search and rescue team sent from Hong Kong to Turkey. Photo: Handout

Hong Kong society

Hong Kong’s urban search and rescue team sets sights on international accreditation

Team will have to pass evaluations on its structure, training programme and performance during simulation exercise to be accredited.

14 Jul 2023 - 8:00AM

John Lee

Hong Kong team sent on Turkey quake mission named as first winner of top award

The 59-strong team rescued four people and recovered six bodies in southern Turkey after a huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the region in February.

27 Jun 2023 - 5:35PMvideocam

Food and Drinks

How a Turkish chef is empowering women and refugees through cooking

Ebru Baybara Demir set up soup kitchens in earthquake-hit areas in Turkey in early 2023, and has spent her career helping displaced women. She recently won the Basque Culinary World Prize.

14 Jun 2023 - 5:36PM

Turkish chef Ebru Baybara Demir, recipient of the 2023 Basque Culinary World Prize. Photo: Tansel Baybara

Americas and the Caribbean

Turkey gifts Mexico adorable pup after a rescue dog was lost on quake duty

Three-month-old German shepherd Arkadas – ‘friend’ in Turkish – will join the famed canine unit that helps locate survivors during natural disasters.

4 May 2023 - 6:03AM

DNA tests help reunite baby and mother separated by Turkey quake

4 Apr 2023 - 3:30PM

Russia

Putin hosts Assad as Kremlin seeks to mend ties between Syria and Turkey

The meeting follows a surprise announcement last week of a Chinese-brokered restoration of diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

16 Mar 2023 - 1:29AMvideocam

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on Wednesday. Photo: Vladimir Gerdo / Sputnik / Kremlin / EPA-EFE

Earthquakes

Turkey’s death toll tops 48,000 as nation races to build container cities

Turkey’s President Erdogan has pledged to rebuild homes within a year but it will be many months before thousands can leave their tents or container homes.

13 Mar 2023 - 8:25PM

A man walks in a destroyed neighborhood among the rubble of collapsed buildings in Hatay on March 7, 2023. Photo: AFP

Israel

Israeli attack paralyses Syrian airport, disrupts quake aid deliveries

Warplanes targeted Aleppo’s airport, a major conduit for aid flights since last month’s earthquake that devastated parts of Turkey and Syria; strike put the runway out of service.

7 Mar 2023 - 9:19PMvideocam

Turkey

Turkey election: opposition unites behind Kilicdaroglu to take on Erdogan

The last-ditch deal for a joint candidate ends months of fierce debate and could avert vote splitting at the polls in May.

7 Mar 2023 - 10:26AMvideocam

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia deposits US$5 billion in Turkish central bank

The deposit shows just how far relations have improved between the kingdom and Turkey after years of tensions between the nations, particularly after the 2018 killing and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

6 Mar 2023 - 8:42PM

Turkey

Turkey still intends elections in May, despite earthquake: Erdogan

‘Nation will do what is necessary on May 14, God willing’, said president; he has faced criticism over handling of tragedy, which killed tens of thousands of people.

2 Mar 2023 - 12:51AMvideocam

Turkey

1 dead in another Turkey earthquake, dozens wounded

Epicentre was in area hit by massive February 6 earthquake that killed tens of thousands in Turkey and Syria.

27 Feb 2023 - 7:33PMvideocam

Ukraine war: 1 year on

Letters | How to overcome compassion fatigue in a world full of refugees

Readers discuss two ways to keep helping others, how ChatGPT disrupts human learning, and public toilets in Hong Kong.

26 Feb 2023 - 11:30AM

Iraq

Turkey struck by new tremors from magnitude 5.2 earthquake

Before this, at least seven tremors over magnitude 4 had been recorded since Friday evening in Turkey, including the quake-hit south.

25 Feb 2023 - 8:48PMvideocam

Ankara fire department and Kirgiz search and rescue teams search the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras on February 14, 2023, in the aftermath of the February 6 earthquake that killed over 40,000 people. Photo: AFP via Getty Images

Hong Kong

Letters | Can’t beat ChatGPT? Learn with it

Readers discuss an interim ban on the chatbot, and an obscure acronym on the Hong Kong rescue team’s uniform.

24 Feb 2023 - 2:57PM

Food and Drinks

Hong Kong restaurants and bars raise funds for Turkey/Syria quake relief

Through chef collaborations and other events, Hong Kong restaurant and bars have been raising funds to help some of the estimated 1 million people left homeless by twin earthquakes.

23 Feb 2023 - 3:57PM

Fresh round of quakes and aftershocks near Turkey-Syria border

21 Feb 2023 - 11:49AM

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Turkey

More earthquakes rock southern Turkey

21 Feb 2023 - 9:34AM

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Earthquakes

New quake hits Turkey-Syria border 2 weeks after disaster

A new 6.4-magnitude earthquake killed six people and injured almost 300 in parts of Turkey laid waste two weeks ago by a massive quake that killed tens of thousands.

21 Feb 2023 - 4:27PMvideocam

Hong Kong society

Hong Kong firefighter hero relives miracle of Turkey earthquake rescue

Firefighter Leung Chi-wang tells of moment he found survivor trapped in rubble of destroyed flat building.

21 Feb 2023 - 12:40AM

Turkey

356,000 pregnant women in need of help as rescue work winds down in Turkey

US Secretary of State Blinken pledged long-term aid for Ankara as rescue work wound down after the February 6 earthquakes killed more than 46,000 people in Turkey and Syria.

20 Feb 2023 - 10:23PMvideocam

Destroyed buildings in earthquake -hit Antakya, Turkey. Photo: Reuters

Earthquakes

Turkey ends quake rescue efforts except in two provinces: official

Rescue operations continue in some 40 buildings in the Kahramanmaras and Hatay provinces but this number is expected to fall by Sunday evening.

19 Feb 2023 - 11:03PM

A man walks in front collapsed buildings in the city of Antakya. Photo: AFP

Nato

US’ Antony Blinken to talk aid, Nordic Nato bid in visit to quake-hit Turkey

In his first trip to Turkey, the US’ top diplomat Antony Blinken will discuss how Washington can further aid Ankara, and the stalled Nato bids of Sweden and Finland, which Turkey has so far refused to ratify.

19 Feb 2023 - 9:24PMvideocam

Earthquakes

Medecins Sans Frontieres makes urgent appeal to scale up for Syria

Activists, rescue teams in Syria’s northwest have decried a slow UN response to the quake in Syria’s rebel-held areas, compared to the planeloads of aid and supplies entering government-controlled airports.

19 Feb 2023 - 8:58PMvideocam

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2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake

Turkey and Syria were hit by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on February 6, 2023, killing at least 42,000 people and collapsing hundreds of buildings in one of the worst natural disasters in years. It was followed hours later by a second one almost as powerful. Dozens of countries, including China and the United States, have pledged aid even as rescuers race against time to find survivors. How to helpTurkish Consulate General Hong KongUnicef Hong KongOxfamSave the ChildrenWorld Vision Hong KongRed CrossMSF (Doctors Without Borders)

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9 September, 2024