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A man holds a picture of Turkey's President and ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan while celebrating outside the party headquarters in Istanbul, on June 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Key dates in Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 20-year rule of Turkey

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

A man holding a flag with an image of Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk waits with others as Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the pro-secular, center-left Republican People's Party, or CHP, is nominated by a six-party alliance as its common candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Ankara, Turkey, March 6, 2023. The alliance on Monday nominated main opposition party leader Kilicdaroglu to challenge Erdogan in elections in May, ending months of uncertainty and bickering that had frustrated their supporters. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkish president sets May 14 election date as he seeks to extend rule

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg attends the informal meeting of EU defense ministers at the Scandinavian XPO in Marsta outside Stockholm, Sweden Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)

NATO chief in new drive to bring Finland, Sweden in

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Personal belongings among the wreckage of a capsized boat washed ashore at a beach near Cutro, southern Italy, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. Nearly 70 people died in last week's shipwreck on Italy's Calabrian coast. The tragedy highlighted a lesser-known migration route from Turkey to Italy for which smugglers charge around 8,000 euros per person. (AP Photo/Paolo Santalucia, File)

Deadly shipwreck: How it happened, and unanswered questions

By Renata Brito and Paolo Santalucia - Associated Press

Hungary's Prime Minister Victor Orban briefs the media in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020. Orban on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, thanked Egypt for its role in capping Europe-bound migration as the two countries inked a series of preliminary agreements in Cairo.(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File )

Hungary further delays vote on Sweden, Finland joining NATO

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Parliament members attend the plenary session where Finnish Parliament voted on Finland's accession to NATO in Helsinki, Finland, Wednesday March 1, 2023. Finnish parliament said yes to Nato, with 184 parliament members voting yes and seven members voting no. One voted empty and seven members were not at the session. (Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva via AP)

Finland’s Parliament gives final approval for NATO bid

By Jari Tanner - Associated Press

A destroyed building leans on a neighbouring house following the earthquake in Samandag, southern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Survivors of the earthquake that jolted Turkey and Syria 15 days ago, killing tens of thousands of people and leaving hundreds of thousands of others homeless, dealt with more trauma and loss Tuesday after another deadly quake and aftershocks rocked the region. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkey launches investigation into 612 people after quake

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A man receives medical assistance after being injured in the latest earthquake in Hatay, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. 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. Officials said more buildings collapsed, trapping occupants, and several people were injured in both Turkey and Syria. (Efekan Akyuz/Depo Photos via AP)

New quake brings fresh losses to residents of Turkey, Syria

By Zeynep Bilginsoy and Susan Fraser - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, shakes hands with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu before their meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey rejects links between NATO expansion, F-16 deal

By Suzan Fraser and Andrew Wilks - Associated Press

Erdogan and a Turkey Dictatorship Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Erdogan’s second earthquake: Turkey marches steadily toward dictatorship

By Jed Babbin

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, disembarks his plane upon arrival at Esenboga Airport in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023. Blinken has taken a helicopter tour of one of the provinces worst-affected by the Feb. 6 earthquake in southern Turkey and northern Syria. The secretary of state is making his first trip to NATO ally Turkey since he took office. Blinken arrived at Incirlik Air Base on Sunday after attending the Munich Security Conference in Germany. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Key developments in the aftermath of the Turkey, Syria quake

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is greeted by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, at Incirlik Air Base near Adana, Turkey, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023. (Clodagh Kilcoyne/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken tours Turkey’s earthquake zone, pledges $100M in aid

By Andrew Wilks - Associated Press

A woman sits next to bodies that were pulled from the rubble of a destroyed building in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. The earthquakes that killed more than 39,000 people in southern Turkey and northern Syria is producing more grieving and suffering along with extraordinary rescues and appeals for aid. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Key developments in the aftermath of Turkey, Syria quakes

By Tanya Titova and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

A baby girl who was born under the rubble caused by an earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey receives treatment inside an incubator at a children's hospital in the town of Afrin, Aleppo province, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. The infant, who has since been named Aya, Arabic for "sign from God," is one of untold numbers of orphans left by Monday's 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Syria and Turkey. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Gunmen storm hospital of newborn saved from quake in Syria

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Fatos Baruc, who lives in Germany and whose mother-in-law survived the earthquake, sits on a chair as she waits for her belongings to take away from a damaged building in Pazarcik, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. Thousands left homeless by a massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria a week ago packed into crowded tents or lined up in the streets for hot meals Monday, while the desperate search for anyone still alive likely entered its last hours. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Rescuers find more alive in Turkey, more aid reaches Syria

By Bernat Armangue and Zeynep Bilginsoy - Associated Press

Zafer Mahmut Boncuk, 60, screams angrily next to the body of his dead mother, Ozcan Bencuk, in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, Saturday, February 11, 2023. Ozcan Boncuk, 75, was trapped during an earthquake that struck a border region of Turkey and Syria and died on Tuesday, a day later. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Turkey earthquake survivors seek hot meals as rescues wane

By Mehmet Guzel, Suzan Fraser and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

Emergency teams search for people in the rubble of a destroyed building in Adana, southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. For Syrians and Ukrainians fleeing the violence back home, the earthquake that struck in Turkey and Syria is but the latest tragedy. The U.N. says Turkey hosts about 3.6 million Syrians who fled their country’s 12-year civil war, along with close to 320,000 people escaping hardships from other countries. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Turkey detains building contractors as quake deaths pass 33K

By Justin Spike and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Members of We the helping hands foundation, a local voluntary organization, sort relief supplies for earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria, at a collection point in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, Feb. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Grief gives way to anger over Turkey’s earthquake response

By Justin Spike and Bernat Armangue - Associated Press

People bury their loved ones, victims of Monday earthquake, in Adiyaman, Turkey, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. Emergency crews made a series of dramatic rescues in Turkey on Friday, pulling several people, some almost unscathed, from the rubble, four days after a catastrophic earthquake killed more than 20,000. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Survivors still being found as quake death toll tops 25,000

By Justin Spike, Abdelrahman and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Children walk between tents, in Aslanli, southeastern Turkey, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. Tens of thousands of people who lost their homes in a catastrophic earthquake huddled around campfires in the bitter cold and clamored for food and water Thursday, three days after the temblor hit Turkey and Syria. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Fundraisers for Syria, Turkey earthquake try to deliver aid

By Thalia Beaty - Associated Press