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    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Turkish economy
      Turkey raises $2.25bn in first bond deal since earthquake

      Tens of billions of dollars needed to rebuild homes, hospitals and schools after February disaster

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      News in-depthTurkey-Syria earthquake
      Spy chief’s daughter highlights UN’s tangled relations with Syrian regime

      Sanctioned figure’s daughter works for UN agency as quake exposes compromises in aid provision benefiting regime

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      News in-depthTurkish politics
      ‘Something is boiling’: Turkish football fans tackle Erdoğan

      President struggles to contain fallout over government’s response to February earthquake

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      Turkish politics
      Turkey to press ahead with May 14 elections

      President Erdoğan quashes speculation poll might be postponed in face of criticism of government response to earthquake

    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      Turkey-Syria earthquake
      From ‘paradise’ to hell: how a luxury residence in Turkey became an earthquake death trap

      A collapsed apartment complex symbolises rot in country’s construction system

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Turkey-Syria earthquake
      World Bank estimates earthquake caused $34bn of damage to Turkey

      Report highlights massive scale of disaster and rebuilding efforts that must take place

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      Turkish economy
      Turkey cuts interest rates in effort to boost economy following earthquake

      Reduction is latest in series of big rate cuts ahead of general election

    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      Turkish economy
      Turkey offers support to quake-hit businesses in southern region

      Presidential decree bars workplaces damaged by the natural disaster from dismissing staff

    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
      Turkey-Syria earthquake
      Fresh tremors hit earthquake-devastated province in Turkey

      Further deaths reported after buildings damaged two weeks ago collapse

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      News in-depthNatural disasters
      From Haiti to Japan, what happens after film crews leave disaster zones?

      An inadequate response to tremors, storms or tsunamis can topple governments

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      News in-depthTurkey-Syria earthquake
      Turkey counts massive cost of rebuilding shattered towns and cities

      Tens of billions of dollars will be required to fund the reconstruction of quake-ravaged areas

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      House & Home
      Lessons from a disaster: building homes for an earthquake

      We can’t prevent earthquakes but engineers and architects have the knowhow to design structures that can keep residents safe

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      Dispatch from northwest Syria

      Smaller-than-expected fall in US inflation will fuel concern over persistence of higher prices

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      News in-depthTurkey-Syria earthquake
      Syrians left to fend for themselves as earthquake relief fails to materialise

      Residents of rebel-held territory tell of sense of abandonment after devastating February 6 disaster

    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      Kim Ghattas
      The Syrian earthquake is not a free pass for Assad

      The president is positioning himself as a solution to the wicked problems he has created

    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      News in-depthTurkey-Syria earthquake
      Erdoğan under fire as shoddy Turkish building standards exposed by quake

      President faces backlash over 2018 amnesty for faults in millions of buildings despite history of natural disasters

    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      Syrian refugees in Turkey face rising hostility

      YouTube Shorts takes on TikTok in battle for younger users

    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      News in-depthTurkey-Syria earthquake
      ‘They hate us’: quake tests ties between Syrian refugees and Turkish hosts

      Many of those who crossed the border to escape civil war and are now homeless face growing hostility

    • Sunday, 12 February, 2023
      Turkey-Syria earthquake
      Erdoğan targets building developers as earthquake death toll tops 33,000

      Turkish president tries to address criticism over lax enforcement of building standards

    • Sunday, 12 February, 2023
      Turkey-Syria earthquake
      Turkey cracks down on developers of buildings toppled in earthquake

      Erdoğan faces growing outrage over poor quality of construction in stricken region

    • Sunday, 12 February, 2023
      Visual and data journalism
      Death toll in Turkey and Syria earthquakes reaches historic scale

      Other charts of the week: working from home, maternity services, currencies’ performance and endangered species

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      The Weekend Essay
      Erdoğan, the earthquake and the failings in my homeland

      The writer Elif Shafak on a natural disaster compounded by man-made greed and corruption

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Turkey and Syria face tragedy once more

      The countries confront different challenges in responding to Monday’s huge earthquake

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Person in the News
      Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Turkey’s president confronts disaster

      The fallout of the catastrophic earthquake comes as the country’s leader faces his toughest re-election campaign yet

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Turkey-Syria earthquake
      Financial help grows for Turkey and Syria as quake death toll tops 22,000

      World Bank commits $780mn to rebuild infrastructure and US pledges $85mn to fund humanitarian efforts

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