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Last year’s massive earthquake in southeastern Turkey killed 53,537 people in the country, the interior minister said Friday, bringing the overall death toll to nearly 60,000. The government in neighbouring Syria has said 1,414 people died in areas under its control in the predawn disaster on February 6, 2023. Turkish-backed officials in northern Syria have put the toll in rebel-held regions at 4,537. The combined official death toll of 59,488 people makes last year’s quake […]
(Eagle News) — Two Filipinos were among the fatalities in the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, the Philippine embassy confirmed on Friday, Feb. 10. According to the embassy, the Filipinos–whom it did not identify–had been reported missing in Antakya. “The Embassy and Consulate General express their deepest condolences and are in coordination with the victims’ families in both the Philippines and Türkiye,” the embassy said in a statement. President Bongbong Marcos also expressed […]
by Dmitry ZAKS Agence France-Presse Istanbul, Turkey (AFP) — Twitter was blocked for at least 12 hours on major Turkish mobile providers in an outage that ended early Thursday, following a flurry of online criticism of the government’s response to this week’s deadly earthquake. By about 5 am (0200 GMT), the social media site was accessible again. Online monitor netblocks.org on Wednesday showed Twitter becoming throttled and then completely blocked across all major cell phone […]
