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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

  • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
    Climate change
    Wildfires in boreal forests release record levels of carbon, satellite study shows

    Burning trees across Eurasia and North America emitted 1.76bn tonnes of CO₂ in 2021

  • 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-depth
    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

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