With food costs in Turkey skyrocketing, the Islamic holy month of Ramadan provides some relief by providing free meals to break the day of fasting. The biggest danger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s reelection campaign, according to analysts, is inflation.
Europe’s largest city, Istanbul was spared the wrath of Turkey’s February earthquakes, but its mayor warns bad building construction could mean a huge disaster is waiting to happen.
In the May elections, a man who has been dubbed the Turkish “Gandhi” by many will provide what observers say is Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s biggest electoral challenge.
Religious minorities who live in the region are among the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the earthquake in Turkey in early February.
As a result of their critical reporting of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s handling of deadly earthquakes in February, rights groups are warning that independent Turkish media face fines and arrest.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is up for reelection despite growing anger with his government’s handling of the recent massive earthquakes that hit Turkey.
The deadly earthquakes in February along the Syrian-Turkish border in Syria’s Idlib region, which is controlled by rebels, completely destroyed a medical system that had already been weakened by years of civil war. Rebel leaders issue a warning about the shortage of medications as many earthquake survivors struggle with illnesses and infections.
Syrians who killed in the earthquake in Turkey are having their bodies returned home to be buried, which is overcrowding the neighborhood cemeteries. To escape the civil violence, millions of Syrians travelled to Turkey.
After a powerful earthquake struck the region on February 6, a Syrian family that had previously been uprooted by conflict has start over again.
Northwestern Syrian villages are facing two disasters. After being severely damaged by a powerful earthquake on Monday, the area was later flooded as a result of the collapse of local levees.
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