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Turkey elections: Quake survivors face up to new life and voting challenges

Nearly three months after the devastating earthquakes in southern Turkey that left more than 50,000 people dead and millions homeless, survivors are still struggling to return to normal life and access basic necessities. In Nurdagi, a town in Gaziantep province where 2,028 people died, survivors live in a container city, which houses over 17,000 people and is equipped with a medical centre, a pharmacy, a psychological support centre, a mosque, a school, a library, […]

today4 May 2023

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Syrian aid grinds to halt as Turkey cracks down on foreign NGOs

International aid organisations are operating in an escalating climate of fear in south Turkey, as Ankara suspends operating licenses, arrests and deports workers and complicates already labyrinthine government regulations. International non-governmental organisations (INGOs) in south Turkey have "come to a standstill", according to one aid worker interviewed by MEE. The crackdown means INGOS are increasingly unable to operate vital aid programmes to hundreds of thousands of refugees, both in Turkey […]

today11 May 2017

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