Antakya

2023 - 2 - 20

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Panic as Turkey, Syria rocked again by 6.3M earthquake (Reuters)

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck southern Turkey near the Syrian border late on Monday, setting off panic and further damaging buildings two weeks after ...

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New quake hits Turkey and Syria, killing six (FRANCE 24)

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey's southern province of Hatay and northern Syria on Monday evening, killing six people and sparking fresh panic ...

I was afraid that we would meet the same fate as those who died under the rubble," said Khadija Al Khalaf, a 45-year-old mother, in the rebel-held city of Azaz. The building moved back and forth, the cars moved left to right. We could hear a lot of buildings collapsing... "Hatay is no longer a safe place. It was also felt in Lebanon. "You don't know what to do...

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New Turkey earthquake leaves three dead and people trapped ... (BBC News)

Three people have died after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey on Monday, weeks after a deadly quake devastated the region.

You can also get in touch in the following ways: Please include your name, age and location with any submission. "I thought the earth was going to split open under my feet," local resident Muna al-Omar told Reuters news agency, crying as she held her seven-year-old son. If you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the Are you in the area? She had been in a tent in a park in the city centre when the new earthquakes hit.

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Turkey and Syria rocked again by magnitude 6.3 earthquake (CNBC)

The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said the tremor struck at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles). Other witnesses said Turkish rescue teams were ...

The two larger earthquakes that hit on Feb. Muna Al Omar, a resident, said she was in a tent in a park in central Antakya when the earthquake hit. Two Reuters witnesses reported a strong quake and further damage to buildings in central Antakya, where it was centered.

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A new earthquake hits Turkey, as teams still respond to earlier ... (NPR)

Turkish authorities say a magnitude 6.4 earthquake, followed by a magnitude 5.8 tremor, struck the Antakya region around 8 p.m. local time Monday.

Turkish public broadcaster TRT broadcast live footage of rescue crews operating at a collapsed building in the city of Antakya, one of the worst-hit cities in the Feb. It said residents were recovering belongings from their building — damaged in the Feb. A waiter's family escaped their home and brought blankets into the restaurant to sleep there. Turkish officials say there have been thousands of aftershocks in the last two weeks. "Think about your relatives, your loved ones, your spouses. The Feb.

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Death toll rises after fresh earthquake hits Turkey-Syria border (Reuters)

Six people were killed in an earthquake which struck the border region of Turkey and Syria, CNN Turk reported on Tuesday, two weeks after a larger quake ...

Fears come true as Turkey's Antakya shaken by third violent ... (Yahoo News)

Havva Tuncay was living in a tent set up in the centre of the Turkish city of Antakya when another earthquake hit on Monday night.

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New quake hits battered Turkey and Syria (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)

A boy is taken to an ambulance after being injured during the latest earthquake in Hatay, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. A new 6.4 magnitude earthquake on ...

The death toll in Turkey and Syria rose to eight in a new and powerful earthquake that struck two weeks after a devastating temblor killed nearly 45,000 people, authorities and media said Tuesday. A man walks past destroyed buildings in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. Syrians wait to cross into Syria from Turkey at the Cilvegozu border gate, near the town of Antakya, southeastern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. ASSOCIATED PRESS Officials said more buildings collapsed, trapping occupants, and several people were injured in both Turkey and Syria. A new 6.4 magnitude earthquake on Monday killed three people and injured more than 200 in parts of Turkey that were laid waste two weeks ago by a massive quake that killed tens of thousands.

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Ruins of Turkish city of Antakya tell story of a rich past (Associated Press)

ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — For nearly two weeks, Mehmet Ismet has lived in the ruins of Antakya's most beloved historic mosque, a landmark in a now-devastated ...

About a dozen Jewish residents and the synagogue’s Torah scrolls were temporarily relocated to Istanbul, said Rabbi Mendy Chitrik, chairman of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States. Now is the eighth time, and God willing ... In recent years, it witnessed steep economic decline and growing emigration to Europe and the Gulf. There were cracks in the walls of the Synagogue of Antakya, home to the area’s 2,500-year-old Jewish community. With little evidence, locals accused Syrian refugees of stealing from stores and the government of downplaying the death toll. A set of stairs leading to it was damaged. Ismet recounted one popular story: Najjar was a resident of Antioch who urged locals to believe God’s messengers referred to in the Quran. Saints Peter and Paul are said to have founded one of the oldest Christian communities here, and it’s here that the word “Christian” first came into use. The mosque can now be reached only by clambering over heaps of concrete and old stones that were once Antakya’s old city. Much of the city is rubble. The 74-year-old took refuge in the Habib Najjar mosque after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed tens of thousands in Turkey and Syria on Feb. He has slept and prayed under the few arches still standing, mourning the future of a city renowned for its past.

Fears come true as Turkey's Antakya shaken by third violent ... (Midwest Communication)

By Ali Kucukgocmen and Henriette Chacar ANTAKYA (Reuters) - Havva Tuncay was living in a tent set up in the centre of the Turkish city of Antakya when...

Murat Vural, a 47-year-old blacksmith, who was at the camp on Monday night, likened the earthquake to religious stories about Antakya. Aid workers who ran through the park checking on people told her to sit down, calm down and have a sip of water. “We didn’t shake too much, don’t be scared,” she said. Is the same thing going to happen, are we going to experience another earthquake? Some buildings around the park continued to creak minutes after the earthquake. She had been having trouble sleeping after the first shocks left Havva and her children homeless two weeks ago.

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A tribute to Jewish Antakya - Unpacked (Jewish Unpacked)

As a native of Antakya, the city whose small Jewish community was demolished along with everything else, I have a specific story to tell.

I am grieving, yet I promise to do everything in my capacity to honor their memory and I hope their souls are bound in the bundle of life. My uncle, Saul Cenudioglu, was a visionary leader committed to the Jewish community. Why has the Jewish community of Antakya dwindled over the years? At the same time, there was also a special kind of solidarity between the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim tradesmen. To ensure there was a minyan (a group of 10 Jews required for prayer services) every week, he would invite Jews from Istanbul to come to Antakya. A team from the Turkish Jewish community saved its 500-year-old Torah scrolls from the rubble. By 2014, the community had shrunk to just 14 people, including my aunt and uncle. The Muslim, Christian and Jewish cemetaries were adjacent to one another. The home I grew up in was a three-story family building called “Cenudi Apartmanı.” We lived on the first floor, my grandmother and grandfather on the second, and my uncle Saul and his wife on the top floor. “Ezan, Çan, Hazzan” was the city’s motto, referring to the Muslim call to prayer, Christian church bells, and the Jewish hazzan (cantor). However, as a native of Antakya, the city whose small Jewish community was demolished along with everything else, I have a specific story to tell, one that other Jews especially must hear. I lost not just my aunt and uncle, but the apartment where I grew up, the streets I walked, the school I attended, our summer place, my synagogue.

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Antakya: A Cultural Jewel, Lost (Fanack.com)

A city known for its cultural diversity and rich history, Antakya is now facing unprecedented hardships with irreversible losses.

Before the earthquake, Antakya was blanketed in a lush vegetation that the activist likens to the Mediterranean scenery of Lebanon and Syria. “Retrieving the bodies alone takes a considerable amount of time,” Amaya-Akkermans said. “Nevertheless, Antakya is the only place we call home and it is where our roots lie,” Yapar said. This comes after the devastating earthquake that struck the area, [al-Arabiya reported](https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2023/02/16/Man-detained-for-attempting-to-kidnap-baby-in-Turkey-s-quake-stricken-Hatay). Tūlūn](https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/*-COM_23565), governor of Abbāsid Egypt and founder of the short-lived Tūlūnid state (868–905), [annexed](https://refugeeacademy.org/upload/library/Palestine_under_the_Moslems.pdf) Northern Syria along the rest of the region – including Antakya – keeping it in his possession until 898. The street, which once housed a diverse array of retailers and eateries, including kebab restaurants, hotels, spice shops, candy shops, tailor shops, pharmacies, and hair salons, is now desolate. The city has always been home to a vibrant, diverse culture. During the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire attempted to restore the city’s previous glory, but the city was reduced to a single small town. “Along with our [destroyed] Antakya Synagogue, the 2500-year-long Jewish life has come to an end with great pain,” the community lamented on Twitter. [Antiocheia](https://hataygastronomi.com/history-geography-of-the-city#:~:text=Antakya%2520grew%2520in%2520a%2520very,region%2520after%2520a%2520long%2520siege.),” built on the ruins of Samandağ and other nearby cities, at the direction of Emperor Seleucus I. Sayf al-Dawla, ruler of northern Syria who was the founder and the most prominent prince of the Arab Hamdānid dynasty of Aleppo, took charge of it in 944 before it was seized by Byzantine general Michael Burtzes in 969 and governed by Byzantine dukes until 1084. For the time being in many years, its residents remain without electricity, water, or toilets, with a risk of a cholera outbreak.

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