European Commission, February 29, 2024
Today, the Commission signed an agreement with Türkiye on a €400 million grant from the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF)...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared last week’s earthquake the deadliest catastrophe since the country’s inception a century ago. With elections on the...
"When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan assumed sweeping powers in 2018, he swore the state would deliver more under a centralised system that his...
"The epicenter of last week's horrific 7.8 and 7.5 magnitude sequential earthquakes that have hit Turkey and Syria this month, is located at the triple junction...
"Turkey's splintered political opposition was supposed to agree Monday on a joint candidate to challenge Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 20-year grip on power at the...
Howard Eissenstat's analysis in the Middle East Institute.
In 1999, a massive earthquake shook Kocaeli Province, near Istanbul. The government badly mismanaged the response....
"Stricter regulations were promised after quake two decades ago, but poor construction has played major role in latest disaster" Bethan McKernan analyzes in The...
"The fallout of the catastrophic earthquake comes as the country’s leader faces his toughest re-election campaign yet" Adam Samson and Laura Pitel report in Financial Times on...
"The devastating earthquakes could delay upcoming elections as Turkey’s president faces backlash" Nektaria Stamouli reports in Politico on February 10, 2023.
As the death toll...
"The devastating scale of Monday's earthquake in southern Turkey presents "serious difficulties" for planned elections in mid-May, a Turkish official said on Thursday, in the first...
"The earthquakes in Turkey are likely to have geopolitical and economic spillover effects including those on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and Europe's energy security,...
ENTRETIEN. L’écrivain natif de Gaziantep, ville endeuillée comme une grande partie de la Turquie par le tremblement de terre, pointe les enjeux politiques de...
"The European Union Commission and the Swedish government, the term president of the EU, have announced that they will organize a donors’ conference to mobilize funds and assistance...
"Given the country’s strategic significance, the upcoming elections are hugely important — and the response to the earthquakes will heavily weigh on its outcome"...
The death toll from a strong earthquake in south-eastern Turkey, near Syria's border, could rise eight-fold, the World Health Organisation has warned, reports BBC...
