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Appeal for $1 billion to assist survivors is only 10% funded, says UN

Institutional decay, lack of coordination as well as the magnitude of the disaster prevented the Turkish government from responding well to the earthquake, officials and experts say

Are lots of modern buildings. all of them should have stayed up. but look, this one is so new that you can still see the stickers in the glass on the top floor. nobody had even moved in there yet, and yet it has still toppled to the ground. the scale of the task ahead is enormous. there isn't enough mechanical equipment in the country to clear the rubble quickly. so places like iskenderun's collapsed hospital wing stay as they are. personal medical notes litter the ruins. there are smashed pieces of equipment and medicines lying on the floor. it's a moment frozen in time. people across souther...

Two ships from the Gulf nation have arrived to southern Turkey with 400 container homes for hundreds of earthquake victims in need.

The February 6 earthquake and strong aftershocks killed more than 46,000 people in Turkey and about 6,000 in Syria.