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Turkey-Syria earthquake 2023


June 2024

  • Capturing devastation … Death Without Mercy.

    ‘It could have been us’: filming the devastation after the Turkish-Syrian earthquakes

    Waad al-Kateab’s documentary Death Without Mercy collects agonising experience from the aftermath of 2023. She reflects on a natural disaster made much worse by politics, and how she is trying to help

February 2024

  • A view of Antakya with new fencing displaying architectural plans of the reconstruction from the earthquake damage while cranes operate in the background.

    Uncertainty surrounds Turkish post-quake rebuild – despite bold promises

    A year on from the devastation, questions remain about the pace of reconstruction amid the rubble
  • Sad girl in bed with doll

    One year on, orphaned siblings are haunted by Syrian earthquake

    Recovery is slow and difficult for the youngsters freed by their uncle from the rubble in Idlib
    • Rights and freedom
      ‘No one can bring back what we lost’: fears rise among poor in Turkish city ravaged by earthquakes

    • Rights and freedom
      A year in the aftermath of Turkey’s earthquake – a photo essay

    • Photography then and now
      Still in ruins: the 2023 Turkish earthquake – then and now

August 2023

  • A woman walks past the dust from a bulldozer excavating the damaged ruins of a church in Antakya

    Rights and freedom
    ‘The illegality is enormous’: Turkey’s quake cleanup may kill even more

  • A man on a laptop works in front of a big image of a bumblebee on a purple flower

    The age of extinction
    Turkey withdraws as host of Cop16, blaming February’s earthquakes

July 2023

  • Earthquake damage outside Hatayspor’s New Hatay Stadium.

    ‘A second chance’: Hatayspor’s return to help heal pain of Antakya’s earthquake

  • A man rides his motorbike as diggers work to clean the rubble of collapsed buildings in Samandag, Turkey on 9 July 2023.

    People in Turkey and Syria: what has life been like since the February earthquakes?

June 2023

  • As of today, cross-border referrals of cancer patients from north-west Syria to Turkey have officially resumed via Bab Al-Hawa.

    A common condition
    Hope for Syrian cancer patients as cross-border treatment resumes in Turkey

    North-west Syria regains access to radiotherapy for first time since Earthquake devastated the region but backlog means many remain in limbo

May 2023

  • An excavator removes the remains of heavily damaged and destroyed buildings from February's powerful quake in Kahramanmaras, south-eastern Turkey.

    ‘He works hard’: Voters in Turkey’s quake zone backing Erdoğan in runoff

    Despite criticism of his response to February’s earthquakes, Erdoğan is increasingly popular in the rural provinces most affected
  • Supporters gather as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan holds a rally ahead of the  elections in Istanbul.

    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hands out gifts in desperate bid to win re-election

    The Turkish president is behind in polls for Sunday’s vote and has resorted to promises of free natural gas, and claims that the country has struck oil
    • The Guardian view on Turkey’s election: an end to Erdoğan’s authoritarianism?

    • Erdoğan faces real chance of losing as Turkey gets ready to vote

    • Support for Erdogan’s party dwindles in Turkey’s quake zone

April 2023

  • President Erdoğan visits a disaster zone in the city of Kahramanmaraş in south-east Turkey, two days after the earthquake, on 8 February 2023.

    Will Turkey’s elections finally spell the end of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?

    Toppling the president and his AKP party in May is no longer unthinkable. But voters in Ankara seem finely balanced

March 2023

  • A war-destroyed building

    Recycling rubble can help rebuild Syria faster, scientists show

    Tests show recycled concrete could safely be used in new buildings in war- and quake-stricken country
  • Children  at a displacement camp for earthquake survivors in the Syrian town of Darat Izza near Aleppo.

    Nine out of 10 people in Syrian camps have been displaced multiple times

    As conflict passes 12-year anniversary, stark new report reveals that 1.8 million people have been forced into refugee camps
  • Flash floods hit earthquake-affected areas of Turkey – video

    The flood-hit regions were already struggling to recover from recent devastating earthquakes

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