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☆ Turkey offers economic support in earthquake zone
  + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Ali Kucukgocmen Henriette Chacar | Ali Kucukgocmen | Henriette Chacar | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Feb. 6 killed more than 47,000 people, damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of buildings in Turkey and Syria and left millions homeless. In Turkey, 865,000 people are living in tents and 23,500 in containers, while 376,000 are in student dormitories and public guesthouses outside the earthquake zone, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. Six people were killed in the latest earthquake to strike the border region of Turkey and Syria, authorities said on Tuesday. Turkey's internet authority blocked access to a popular online forum, Eksi Sozluk, on Tuesday, two weeks after it briefly blocked access to Twitter, citing the spread of disinformation. Information Technologies and Communications Authority (BTK) website shows the website was blocked late on Tuesday, without citing any explicit reason.
☆ Fears come true as Turkey's Antakya shaken by third violent earthquake
  + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Ali Kucukgocmen Henriette Chacar | Ali Kucukgocmen | Henriette Chacar | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
[1/4] A man sits outside after an earthquake in Antakya in Hatay province, Turkey, February 20, 2023. The fear that kept her awake at night for two weeks had now come true. "I will pick you up and we will leave," Havva told her daughter. On Tuesday, Reuters saw Havva with Mehmet and her two daughters just outside Antakya city centre, boarding a bus that would take them to Edirne free of charge. Murat Vural, a 47-year-old blacksmith, who was at the camp on Monday night, likened the earthquake to religious stories about Antakya.
☆ Earthquake fans anti-Syrian sentiment in Turkey amid desperate conditions
  + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Maya Gebeily Ali Kucukgocmen Henriette Chacar | Maya Gebeily | Ali Kucukgocmen | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
[1/7] Children draw at a makeshift shelter that hosts about 250 people, half of whom are children, following the the deadly earthquake in Mersin, Turkey, February 13, 2023. Anti-Syrian slogans such as "We don't want Syrians," "Immigrants should be deported," and "No longer welcome" trended on Twitter. TENSIONS ON THE RISETurkey is home to nearly 4 million Syrian refugees, having opened its borders to those fleeing the civil war that erupted there in 2011. Turkey has spent more than $40 billion since 2011 accommodating the refugees at a time of intense economic hardship in the country. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday a new influx of refugees from Syria to Turkey was "out of the question".
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