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Turkey: 3-year-old girl rescued 91 hours after quake

A three-year-old girl was pulled out of the rubble alive on Tuesday days after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit Turkey's Aegean region. Ayda Gezgin was rescued in the Bayrakli district of the Aegean Izmir province 91 hours after the quake. Ayda, the 107th survivor to be rescued,...

Western Turkey earthquake death toll climbs to 100

The death toll from a powerful earthquake which hit western Turkey rose to 100 on Tuesday, the country's disaster authority said. The 7.0 magnitude quake also injured 994 people, the agency known by its Turkish acronym AFAD reported, with 147 still in hospital. It added that rescue...

Over 2,300 new virus cases reported in Turkey

Turkey registered 2,302 more novel coronavirus patients over the past 24 hours, according to Health Ministry data released Monday. The country's overall tally now stands at 379,775, the ministry said. Some 1,521 more patients recovered over the past day, raising the count to 327,007,...