Earthquake in Turkey again – video shows how apartment building collapses

The earth in Turkey and Syria does not come to rest.

The civil protection agency AFAD reports an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6.

• Erdogan's apology

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  the earthquake

  : The much-criticized President apologizes to the citizens.

• New earthquake

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  magnitude of 5.6

  : The Turkish disaster agency AFAD reports one dead, several buildings collapsed - video shows the collapse.

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  severe earthquakes

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  Turkey

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  Syria

  : the death toll rises to more than 50,000

• This news ticker on the earthquake disaster in Turkey and Syria is updated regularly.

Update from February 28, 6:28 a.m .

: The clean-up and search work continues on Tuesday: the earth in Turkey trembled again on Monday.

The epicenter of a magnitude 5.6 earthquake was the city of Mantalya and the municipality of Yesilyurt.

The renewed earthquake in Turkey thus occurred three weeks after the severe earthquake in Turkey and Syria on February 6th.

Photos taken Monday show a girl being rescued by rescue workers in Mantalya.

It was not initially known whether this was the girl who, according to the mayor of Mantalya, was buried with her father.

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Malatya, earthquake disaster in Turkey: A photo shows how rescue workers rescue a girl from the rubble

© Mesut Yilmaz/DIA/dpa-Bildfunk

New earthquake in Turkey: Videos on Twitter show collapsed houses

Update from February 27, 7:48 p.m .:

After another earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 in Turkey, videos on Twitter show newly collapsed houses.

Plumes of smoke over the city can be seen in the distance.

The epicenter of the earthquake was reportedly in the municipality of Yesilyurt.

The search for the missing continues.

So far, 110 have been reported injured and one dead.

"Malatya'da 5.6" pic.twitter.com/Dgnjq3xOVS

— 1907~ (@Zarkusfb) February 27, 2023

Criticism after the earthquake in Turkey: Aid organization is said to have asked for money for tents

Update from February 27, 4:32 p.m

.: After the earthquake in Turkey, there is criticism of the Turkish Red Crescent, the largest aid organization in Turkey: The organization is said to have sold tents for the earthquake victims instead of giving them away for free.

Haluk Levent, rock musician and chairman of the Ahbap aid organization, said on Monday his organization had no choice but to pay the equivalent of about 950 euros per tent.

Turkey's Red Crescent leader Kerem Kinik defended himself on Twitter on Sunday night.

He confirmed that 2050 tents had been delivered to Ahbap but no profit had been made.

A subsidiary responsible for the production of tents made the tents available at the price of the production costs, he wrote.

The move sparked outrage across the country.

The leader of the opposition party Iyi, Meral Aksener, wrote on Twitter to the address of the Red Crescent: "Shame on you!"

110 injured and one dead after new earthquake in Turkey - search for buried people continues

Update from February 27, 3:59 p.m .

: After the new earthquake in Turkey on Monday, the state news agency Anadolu reported on Monday that at least one person was killed and 110 people were injured.

In addition, 32 people were freed from the rubble, and two buildings are still being searched for people who have been buried.

The earthquake had a magnitude of 5.6, according to the Kandilli Earthquake.

The epicenter was therefore in the municipality of Yesilyurt.

Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: World Bank estimates damage in Turkey at 32.4 billion euros

Update from February 27, 3:33 p.m .

: The earthquake in Turkey and Syria with more than 50,000 deaths has now an official damage estimate from the World Bank: in Turkey alone, property damage is said to be 34.2 billion US dollars (around 32, 4 billion euros) may have arisen.

The regions affected by the disaster have the highest poverty rate in Turkey and are also home to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees.

The World Bank estimates that 1.25 million people have been temporarily made homeless as a result of damage to their homes or a complete building collapse.

According to the report, damage to residential buildings accounts for around 18 billion US dollars (17 billion euros).

9.7 billion US dollars (9.2 billion euros) relate to non-residential buildings and 6.4 billion US dollars (6 billion euros) to infrastructure such as roads or electricity and water supply.

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Excavators work on the site of buildings collapsed during the earthquake.

© Bernat Armangue/dpa

The report only focused on the damage in Turkey and not in Syria.

That corresponds to four percent of the country's gross domestic product in 2021, according to a report published on Monday.

The cost of rebuilding could potentially be more than double.

That also depends on the extent to which new building regulations are applied.

Earthquake in Turkey: Turkish football fans with solidarity action and chanting against Erdogan

Update from February 27, 3:07 p.m

.: Football fans reacted to the earthquake in Turkey on Sunday with a solidarity campaign.

As Der Spiegel reports, fans of Beşiktaş Istanbul threw stuffed animals and toys that they had collected for the earthquake victims onto the lawn.

At the same time, the names of the regions affected by the earthquake were displayed in the stadium.

The action took place at 4.17 minutes - the time of the February 6 earthquake.

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"Government, resign!" demanded Turkish football fans in the stadium.

Recordings of the chants are shared on social media.

© Screenshot Twitter Tek Yol Fener/imago

The earthquake in Turkey now also has a political dimension: according to reports from Die Welt, chants in the football stadium demanded the resignation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

He is heavily criticized because during his tenure, several buildings were legalized that did not meet the official earthquake safety requirements and buried people under their rubble during the earthquake.

In addition, there were many complaints that rescue teams had come to the crisis region too late and in too few numbers and with too little equipment.

The President himself asked the people of Turkey for forgiveness on Monday.

"Due to the great destruction, the weather conditions and the damage to the infrastructure, it was not possible to work with the "desired effectiveness" in the first few days," Erdogan said in Adiyaman on Monday.

The Turkish President also asked for "a year" to heal "most of the wounds from the earthquake".

"Like every mortal, we can have flaws, flaws, and flaws."

After new earthquake in Turkey: Mayor of Malatya Yeşilyurt reports of two buried people

Update from February 27, 2:00 p.m .

: After another aftershock in Turkey on Monday, the mayor of the city of Malatya Yeşilyurt, Mehmet Çınar, reported that there were at least two people buried under the rubble.

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: “I am currently at the top of the rubble of a destroyed building.

Unfortunately, people around here say that two people are under the rubble.

I was told they are father and daughter.”

New earthquake shakes Turkey: in Matalya, the earth trembles with a magnitude of 5.6

Update from February 27, 12:10 p.m .:

A new earthquake has shaken Turkey.

According to the civil protection agency AFAD, an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurred in the Yesilyurt area of ​​the city of Malatya.

Authorities report one dead and nearly 70 injured.

29 buildings were destroyed in the aftershock.

A Twitter video shows a residential building in the city of Malatya collapsing with full force in the earthquake.

The multi-storey complex collapses.

The Turkish news portal EHA Medya shared the footage from a local newspaper on Twitter.

New earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6: The Turkish disaster agency AFAD reports one dead, several buildings collapsed

The earthquake occurred at a depth of around seven kilometers and was also felt in the surrounding towns.

A father and his daughter were trapped under the rubble, Yesilyurt Mayor Mehmet Cinar said on the AHaber broadcaster.

Rescue teams would be on site.

#Malatya'da meydana gelen 5.6 şiddetindeki depremde hasarlı binanın yıkılma anı kameraya yansıdıpic.twitter.com/EqD99092Bd

— EHA MEDYA (@eha_medya) February 27, 2023

After severe earthquakes in Turkey and Syria: the death toll rises to more than 50,000

First report from February 27th

Istanbul – Three weeks after the earthquake disaster in Turkey and Syria, the death toll has risen to more than 50,000.

The number of deaths in Turkey has risen to 44,347, said the head of the civil protection agency Afad, Yunus Sezer, on Sunday in Ankara.

5,900 deaths were recently reported from Syria.

• Severe earthquakes in Turkey and Syria: The chronology of a catastrophe on February 6, 2023

• 1:24 p.m. local time

  : 7.5-magnitude earthquake four kilometers from Ekinozu town, according to the United States Seismological Survey (USGS).

• 4:28 a.m., local time

  : 6.8 magnitude earthquake with the epicenter in southern Turkey's Kahramanmaras near the city of Gaziantep, 60 kilometers from the border with Syria.

• 4.17 a.m., local time

  : The 7.8-magnitude earthquake occurred east of Nurdagi in the Turkish province of Gaziantep and, according to the US earthquake monitor USGS, had its epicenter in southeastern Turkey, near the border with Syria. 

Foreign search and rescue teams have mostly left the earthquake area, said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

But helpers from home and abroad were still following up on clues about missing people.

List of rubrics: © Screenshot GFZ Postdam