For Turkey, the second anniversary of the devastating earthquakes that struck swathes of the south of the country and parts of Syria on 6 February 2023 was a realisation that for so many moving on from either the second or fourth phases of the five stages of grief (denial,

Dozens of families continue to search for their loved ones and at least 30 of the missing are children. Emir's aunt Nursen Kisa arrived at the collapsed building in Antakya an hour after the earthquake and waited beside the debris for over two weeks while search and rescue operations continued.

Our chest, our front, our back, our lips – it’s forbidden for anyone to come and touch those parts of our bodies – no one has that right,” says Alican Mutlu, a youth worker with the Turkish Red Crescent,

Aid groups say a full recovery remains far off, with thousands still facing barriers to returning home. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Thousands of survivors held torchlit vigils across southern Turkey at 4:17 am Thursday, expressing pain and anger as they marked the exact moment two years ago when a devastating earthquake

Turkey on Thursday commemorates the second anniversary of the February 6, 2023 earthquake, which claimed nearly 60,000 lives including in neighbouring Syria and turned entire cities into ruins.