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Doors to courtyard locked in Silivri Prison on night of İstanbul quake

October 1, 2019

A request from jailed journalist Ahmet Altan to the administration of Silivri Prison in İstanbul to leave the doors to the courtyard unlocked after...

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7 million houses in Turkey unsafe, architects union says on anniversary of 1999 earthquake

August 16, 2017

The Turkish Union of Engineers and Architects’ Chambers (TMMOB) İstanbul office said on Wednesday that 7 million houses out of nearly 22 million across...

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Head of Turkey’s largest observatory: Magnitude 7.2 earthquake in İstanbul would not be surprising

February 7, 2017

Following several minor earthquakes in western Turkey over the past two days, the director of the country’s largest seismology center, the İstanbul-based Kandilli Observatory, said on...