Earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria
One year after the devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria: “It is too dark to dream”
A year after devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria, communities are still struggling with severe ongoing challenges. There's an urgent need for continued humanitarian aid to support the 19 million affected people.
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Read MoreSix months after being buried alive: “Many say that the earthquake is over, but it is not over”
In February 2023, earthquakes rocked southeastern Türkiye and Syria, causing widespread death, injury, and infrastructural damage. Six months on, the humanitarian crisis persists, with survivors like Elcin, a mother who lost her children and mother, living in makeshift container homes and grappling with the psychological impact of the disaster.
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Syria: The things they went back for
A mortar and pestle. A ring. A notebook. A colored pencil. A baseball. Coffee cups. Clothes their daughter would have worn, had she lived. The earthquakes hit Turkiye and Syria on February 6, and these are just a few of the things Ammar, Qasem, Amira, Shams, and Mohammed rescued from the rubble in the days afterward.
Read MoreWhen the earthquake hit: “Everything is shaking, people are screaming. Outside it is cold and dark.”
Ayham Taha, 33, is a technical advisor for CARE Global on humanitarian food security and livelihoods and works on several projects in Türkiye and Northern Syria. He and his wife are Syrian and have been working in humanitarian aid since the conflict in Syria started. His experiences in the wake of the earthquakes of February 6 are worse than anything he has ever seen. This is how Ayham recounts th
Read MoreTurkey and Syria: “The situation before the earthquake was dire, catastrophic – and now it is even more so”
Sherine Ibrahim and Ayham Taha have been trying to describe what life has been like in Turkey and Syria since the deadly earthquakes struck the region early Monday morning. But it's hard. “No matter how much I try to describe it,” Taha said to CNN’s Julia Chatterly, “it is still [nothing] compared to what it is on the ground.”
Read More“Trying to find survivors under the rubble.” The day after Turkey and Syria’s deadly earthquakes
In Gaziantep, Turkey, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck early Monday morning. On the day after the disaster, communities are trying to dig out and recover. Government officials have already declared it to be the deadliest earthquake to hit the country in two decades, with a tremor as strong as the 1939 earthquake, which killed an estimated 30,000 people.
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