Anniversary Archives

Last year's February 6 disaster killed nearly 60,000 people and erased swathes of cities across Turkey and parts of Syria

World

Turkey commemorates its worst disaster of modern times

Turkey on Tuesday holds pre-dawn vigils for the loss of more than 50,000 people — and parts of entire cities — in the earthquake-prone...

AFPFebruary 4, 2024

Container schools offer children a sense of normality in Turkey's earthquake zone

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Quake trauma haunts children in Turkey’s container city

Cansu Gol lost her baby in the rubble of Turkey’s massive earthquake a year ago. Now she spends her time trying to heal the...

AFPFebruary 3, 2024

Protesters took to the streets of Myanmar following a 2021 coup that saw the government of Aung San Suu Kyi ousted from power

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Myanmar enters fourth year of post-coup crisis

Myanmar on Thursday enters its fourth year since a coup snuffed out a short-lived dance with democracy, with the embattled junta warning it will...

AFPJanuary 31, 2024

Damaged buildings are still being demolished near the epicentre of Turkey's massive 2023 earthquake

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Turkey quake survivors seek justice one year on

Zahide Seker contemplated suicide many times after losing almost her entire family in Turkey’s massive earthquake one year ago. Instead, the 48-year-old decided to...

AFPJanuary 28, 2024

Turkey's February 6, 2023 earthquake destroyed more than 850,000 buildings across 11 provinces

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Fear, uncertainty and grief year after Turkey’s quake

Over 65 nightmarish seconds of the pre-dawn hours of February 6, 2023, the ground swallowed swathes of entire cities across Turkey’s southeast, resulting in...

AFPJanuary 28, 2024

Mesut Hancer stayed holding onto his daughter's hand after she was crushed in Turkey's quake

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‘Time has stopped’: Grieving father relives Turkish quake

The photo of Mesut Hancer holding his dead daughter's hand protruding from the debris, her body crushed and his gaze lost.

AFPJanuary 28, 2024

The anniversary has largely been ignored by Russians

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Russians gather to mark 100 years since Lenin’s death

Dozens of Russian communists gathered in Red Square on Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin’s death, in one of the few...

AFPJanuary 21, 2024

Residents walk past debris after Super Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines in 2013

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Philippine typhoon survivors pray for victims on 10th anniversary

Survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan prayed for their dead loved ones in the devoutly Catholic Philippines on Wednesday as they commemorated the 10th anniversary of...

AFPNovember 7, 2023