Snow blanketed quake-hit eastern Turkey, while emergency crews found a teenager alive in the rubble more than 100 hours after the disaster even as the death toll climbed to 550.

Aydin Palak, 18, was

Rescuers on Friday pulled a 12-year-old boy from the rubble of Turkey's earthquake after he had lain trapped more than 100 hours, as the death toll in the disaster rose to 573.

The end of Ferhat Toka

Survivors of eastern Turkey's earthquake pleaded for more tents on Thursday, fearing death from cold after a tremor that killed at least 523 and left thousands sleeping in the open.

Some blamed the r

Turkey clung to hopes on Wednesday of finding survivors under rubble three days after a powerful earthquake killed at least 459 people, and the government finally requested foreign help to shelter tho

At least 138 bodies have been found after a magnitude-7.2 earthquake hit Turkey's southeastern Van province on Sunday, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said early Monday.

More than 350 people were

Turkish tanks and armoured vehicles crossed into northern Iraq headed in the direction of a Kurdish militant camp, Turkish security sources said on Monday.

The incursion came as cross-border operatio

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake jolted eastern Turkey on Sunday, reported the private NTV television.

Several houses were collapsed after the quake in Van province in eastern Turkey, said the Anatolia new

An earthquake of 7.3 magnitude rocked eastern Turkey on Sunday, with a seimological institute estimating up to 1,000 people could lie dead under the rubble of dozens of collapsed buildings.

The power

Kurdish rebels killed 26 soldiers on Wednesday in simultaneous attacks in southeast Turkey, marking one of the deadliest days for the army in the 27-year battle against the separatists.

The Turkish m

A powerful explosion killed two people and left several injured in the Turkish capital Ankara on Tuesday, NTV television reported.

The blast blew out windows of shops and offices in the surrounding a