Huge earthquake near Turkish/ Syrian border

Damn, there are going to be a lot of deaths from this one. Reading reports of a lot of apartment buildings collapsing and a lot of Syrian refugees being affected.

The death toll is 1000 plus now 😔

Such a sad story.

That's horrible and so scary.

My daughter is currently studying in Cyprus for the semester. They had a smaller quake a little while before the first one in Turkey. This morning she said they felt another one. There was no damage at her university, but still scary. The damage and loss of lives in Turkey is heartbreaking.

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I’ve seen the Turkiye and assumed it was a language respectful spelling. Of course Twitter jerks weren’t having it. It seems to be a good trend like with Kyiv and not saying The Ukraine etc

I worked with a young guy around 20 years ago. He referred to me as his American Mama. We stayed in touch on FB but both a friend of mine and I realised today he's no longer listed as a friend. I have no way to find out if he's ok. So heartbreaking

I was looking at the appeals from Save The Children and The Red Cross on Facebook. The comments are disgusting along the lines of “we never received help when we were flooded” “let the ‘Sultans’ of Turkey sell their gold plated cars” “charity begins at home” etc etc. It beggars belief that people have such an attitude. Life in Britain and other countries may be hard for many but it’s NO comparison to what these FELLOW HUMANS are dealing with.

spelling note: Sullivan refers to the country as "Turkiye" — the name its president has been pushing the international community to recognize since 2021.

The United Nations agreed to recognize the country as Türkiye in June, and the U.S. State Department announced last month that it would start using that spelling in formal and diplomatic settings.

The Associated Press, whose stylebook NPR and other news organizations follow, has not formally adopted the new spelling just yet.

I have been seeing footage come over my FYP on TikTok and it's just devastating. There is some footage of someone standing in what looks like a parking garage and the camera is focused on the pillar holding up the building and it literally is broken in half and you see it jump and separate and come back down on itself and you can't even tell it's broken.

How many buildings are like this? They are still standing but just ready to topple over when it looks just fine? And its the dead of winter and these people have no shelter! The wails of cries all over, it's making me heartsick for these poor, suffering people.

My feed alternates between this kind of footage and then the next is some outraged idiot screaming because Beyonce didn't win Album of the Year. I just can't.

The mother didn't survive gar. The baby was the only one of the family to live.

That’s really scary. Yesterday I saw a segment where a man and his family were in their car in a parking garage to try to stay warmer and worried about the safety of that.