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A car is seen under the wreckage of a collapsed building, in Azmarin town, in Idlib province, northern Syria, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. A powerful earthquake has caused significant damage in southeast Turkey and Syria and many casualties are feared. Damage was reported across several Turkish provinces, and rescue teams were being sent from around the country. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Live Updates | Turkey, Syria earthquake search intensifies

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech to gathered supporters outside a packed sports hall where he also attended his ruling party's congress in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Erdogan has come in the firing line for holding the rally inside the closed venue amid a new surge in COVID-19 cases. Thousands of party supporters filled the stands of the 10,400-capacity sports hall in the capital, in disregard of the government's own social distancing rules to fight the coronavirus pandemic. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

Erdogan under fire for packed congress despite virus surge

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In this photo taken from a video released by Armenian Foreign Ministry on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, alleged Azerbaijani armed forces shell civilian infrastructures in Stepanakert, the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan. Clashes broke out Sunday in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region within Azerbaijan that has been controlled by ethnic Armenian forces backed by the Armenian government since the end of a separatist war a quarter-century ago. (Armenian Foreign Ministry via AP)

AP Explains: What lies behind Turkish support for Azerbaijan

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the members of his ruling party, in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. Erdogan says Thursday his government will submit a bill to parliament that would allow Turkey to send troops to Libya, in support of the U.N.-backed government there. Erdogan said the Libyan government, which controls the capital, Tripoli, has "invited" Turkey to send troops. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

Court rules Turkey violated freedoms by banning Wikipedia

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Bishop Sahak Masalyan speaks during a special ceremony after his election as the new Patriarch of Turkey's Armenian community, in Istanbul, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. Armenian community voted on Wednesday Masalyan as its new patriarch, in an election critics say was overshadowed by Turkish government intervention. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkey’s Armenian church elects new patriarch

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In a Dec. 17, 2018, file photo, Bijan Kian leaves the FBI Washington Field Office in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Trial of former Flynn business partner begins in Virginia

By MATTHEW BARAKAT - Associated Press

German broadcaster ZDF's Istanbul bureau chief Joerg Brase poses for photographs in Istanbul, Sunday, March 10, 2019. Brase and Thomas Seibert of Tagesspiegel were stripped of their press credentials to work in Turkey and had left the country. They have called the government's move an attempt to silence international media and German officials have criticised Turkey's refusal to renew their accreditations. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

German journalists say Turkey trying to silence foreigners

By FRANK JORDANS and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and LEFTERIS PITARAKIS - Associated Press

Turkish employee of US Consulate indicted for espionage

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

Backdropped by Turkey's flag officials wait for an event to be attended by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin, marking the completion of one of the phases of the Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline, in Istanbul, Monday, Nov. 19, 2018. The two 930-kilometer (578-mile) lines when finished are expected to carry 31.5 billion cubic meters (1.1 trillion cubic feet) of Russian natural gas annually to European markets, through Turkish territories.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Metin Topuz, Turkish U.S. consulate employee, indicted for espionage

By Zeynep Bilginsoy - Associated Press

President Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, his attorney Robert Kelner and Mr. Flynn's wife Lori Andrade arrive at federal court in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Michael Flynn’s sentencing delayed at least 90 days by judge

By Jeff Mordock and S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

UK court throws out extradition request for Turkish critic

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 25, 2018 file photo, Andrew Craig Brunson, centre, an evangelical pastor from Black Mountain, North Carolina, who had been jailed in Turkey for more than one and a half years on terror and espionage charges, arrives at his house in Izmir, Turkey where he was put under house arrest as his trial continues. Turkey's arrests of Brunson and other Western citizens have thrust its troubled judicial system to the forefront of ties with allies, reinforcing suspicions that the Turkish government is using detainees as diplomatic leverage. (AP Photo/Emre Tazegul, File)

Detainees and diplomacy: Turkey denies a link

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

Paramilitary police and members of the special forces escort former Air Force Cmdr. Akin Ozturk and other suspects of last year's failed coup, outside the courthouse at the start of a trial, in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. Nearly 500 suspects, including a number of generals and military pilots, went on trial in Turkey Tuesday, accused of leading last year's failed coup attempt and carrying out attacks from an air base in Ankara. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Nearly 500 suspects stand trial over Turkey’s failed coup

By Burhan Ozbilici - Associated Press

Supporters of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party, rallied after a 265-mile "March for Justice" from the capital, Ankara, to Istanbul. A year ago, Turkey was roiled by an attempted coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, followed by a state of emergency, mass arrests and a wide-scale crackdown on civil servants. (Associated Press)

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdowns create Turkey restiveness

By Austin Davis and Marga Zambrana - Special to The Washington Times

In this Feb. 13, 2017, file photo, Mike Flynn arrives for a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, who was fired from the White House last month, has registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department for work that may have aided the Turkish government in exchange for $530,000. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, says lobbying may have helped Turkey

By Stephen Braun and Chad Day - Associated Press

A Turkish army officer patrols a wall under construction near Kilis to help boost security along the border with conflict-stricken Syria. (Associated Press)

Turkey border wall helps secure city protecting Syrian refugees

By Fariba Nawa — Special to The Washington Times

In this Feb. 13, 2017, file photo, Mike Flynn arrives for a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, who was fired from the White House last month, has registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department for work that may have aided the Turkish government in exchange for $530,000. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Former Trump aide Flynn says lobbying may have helped Turkey

By STEPHEN BRAUN and CHAD DAY - Associated Press

The Latest: Charter school chain says Ohio complaint flawed

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Pope Francis celebrates an Armenian-Rite Mass to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican Sunday, April 12, 2015. Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed by genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey however denies that the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated, and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Is there a light in the dark for Turkey’s invisible Christians?

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency