The Turkish city of Antakya, one of the hardest-hit towns in the earthquake zone has been nearly destroyed by the massive 7.8 quake that struck on Feb. 6. Tall apartment buildings were flattened, ...

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 city that was famed for thousands of years as ...

ANTAKYA, Turkey — Yusuf Kocaoglu, a professional guide, leads us on a tour he never wanted to give. The site of ancient Antioch — a crossroads of civilizations and a modern tourist and religious ...

ANTAKYA, Turkey — Emine Tanrica survived the powerful earthquake last year that destroyed parts of Turkey and Syria and has been living in a temporary shelter in one of the many camps for displaced ...

Rabbi Mendy Chitrik, who chairs the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, described the fallout from the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on February 6 as “total devastation” and that the city of ...

(JTA) — Saul Cenudioglu, the president of the small Jewish community in Antakya, Turkey, was confirmed dead on Friday, a day after his wife’s body had been pulled from the wreckage of their apartment ...

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