KAHRAMANMARAS : After an earthquake killed thousands near Istanbul in 1999, a young Islamist who had served as the city’s mayor boosted his political career by taking tea with survivors in their tents and asking, where is the state? “I said to him, ‘This is an industrial city—why are we unprepared?’ " said Mr. Yilmaz, a retired baby crib manufacturer …
Hatayspor has withdrawn from the Turkish Super Lig following the devastating earthquake that hit the country this week, the president of the Turkish Union of Clubs Ali Koc said on Thursday. Hatayspor’s Ghanaian winger Christian Atsu remains missing despite the club’s vice president saying earlier this week that he had been rescued from the rubble with injuries and transported to …
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in today’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, CNN’s three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Mehmet Murat Onel/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images People wait near a collapsed building in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, hoping for news of their missing relatives on February 14. Mehmet Ali Ozcan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Raziye Kilinc is carried through …
CNN — Thousands of people have died and tens of thousands of others were injured by the devastating earthquakes that rocked Turkey and Syria on Monday. Mehmet Murat Onel/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images People wait near a collapsed building in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, hoping for news of their missing relatives on February 14. Mehmet Ali Ozcan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Raziye Kilinc is …