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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won reelection, according to unofficial results.

The election in the sharply divided country of 85 million people could hardly come at a more pivotal time.

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Members of the Virginia Task Force One received a warm welcome on their return from the Turkey-Syria border, where they helped with the aftermath of the earthquakes. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

Monday’s earthquake was centered in the town of Defne, in Turkey’s Hatay province, one of the worst-hit regions in the magnitude 7.8 quake that hit on Feb. 6.

Watch as a man pulled from the rubble in Turkey asks to speak to his family.

A man rescued from beneath the rubble in Turkey 261 hours after the earthquake hit, made his first phone call to his family after being pulled out and got some encouraging news.

Video of the rescue shows the 42-year-old woman being pulled up from under the rubble and carried out on a stretcher.

The desperate search for earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria entered its final hours Monday as rescuers using sniffer dogs and thermal cameras surveyed pulverized apartment blocks for any sign of life a week after the disaster.

A woman who was stuck in the rubble of a collapsed building in Turkey for some 175 hours was rescued on Monday.

Turkish justice officials are targeting more than 130 people allegedly involved in shoddy and illegal construction methods after a pair of earthquakes collapsed thousands of buildings in southeast Turkey and northern Syria six days ago.

The death toll continues to climb in Turkey and Syria, and as desperation mounts to rescue survivors who have lost everything, people in our region have been dropping off donations. News4’s Derrick Ward has updates on those efforts.

Five days after two powerful earthquakes hours apart caused thousands of buildings to collapse, killing more than 28,000 people and leaving millions homeless, rescuers were still pulling unlikely survivors from the ruins. Although each rescue elicited hugs and shouts of “Allahu akbar!” — “God is great!” — from the weary men and women working tirelessly in the freezing temperatures to...

Rescue workers pulled a 10-day old infant from the wreckage of a collapsed building on Friday

Rescuers have pulled more than a dozen people alive from the shattered remnants of buildings after a catastrophic earthquake slammed Turkey and Syria.

Much needed aid from the D.C. area was sent to Turkey. News4’s Walter Morris reports the Turkish Embassy organized the relief effort, which is being transported by Turkish Airlines.

Satellite images released by Maxar Technologies illustrate the scope of the damage in Turkey, putting into context the challenges facing emergency crews.

Tens of thousands of people who lost their homes in a catastrophic earthquake huddled around campfires and clamored for food and water in the bitter cold, three days after the temblor and series of aftershocks hit Turkey and Syria, killing more than 20,000.

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Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder today detailed the current U.S. military assets that have been deployed to assist Turkey in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes in the country.