Antakya in a sentence

Abdurrahman Kurdo, a business student and the manager of a hotel near the destroyed Antioch Greek Orthodox Church, was sifting through the rubble to salvage what he could of Antakya's culture.

A man uses a flashlight to check damaged buildings, in the aftermath of an earthquake, in Antakya, Turkey, Feb. 8, 2023.

A man walks through the rubble of destroyed buildings in Antakya, southern Turkey, on February 8, 2023.

Antakya is destroyed,” he said.

Antakya is in Hatay, a province tucked between the Mediterranean Sea and Turkey’s border with Syria.

ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Rescue teams using thermal cameras to locate signs of life continued to pull out survivors out of mounds of rubble Saturday, five days after a major earthquake struck a sprawling border region of Turkey and Syria.

ANTAKYA — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday conceded “shortcomings” after criticism of his government’s response to the massive earthquake that has killed over 15,000 people in Turkey and Syria.

Antakya, which had a pre-earthquake population of around 200,000, lies in the province of Hatay in Turkey's southeast.

Destroyed buildings in Antakya, Turkey, after powerful earthquakes in February.

He spoke to Salah Al-Asmar, a Syrian architect based in the UK, who lost his parents, brother, sister-in-law and nephew in the earthquake in Antakya, Turkey.

Hikmet Çinçin, the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Antakya, says the organization has not surveyed its 10,000 members to know how many survived.

In Antakya, lots of of excavators stuffed dump vehicles which moved on in single file as operations to search out survivors wound down.

It jolted us out of our places," said Burhan Abdelrahman, who was walking out of his tent in a camp in Antakya city centre when the earthquake struck.

Next up, the group hopes to fund a van it can use to deliver mobile drama therapy to children in the internally displaced people camps around Antakya.

Rescuers carry Muhammed Alkanaas, 12, to an ambulance after they pulled him out five days after the earthquake in Antakya.

Rescue workers continue the search for victims of the earthquake in Antakya, Turkey, February 11, 2023.

Two Reuters reporters said the tremors were strong and lasting, damaging buildings and leaving dust in the night air in central Antakya city, where it was centred.

Two witnesses reported a strong quake and further damage to buildings in central Antakya which was hit by two massive earthquakes two weeks ago, causing tens of thousands of deaths and destroying buildings and infrastructure.

Umit Ozalp, who has lived for 40 years in Antakya, a historic city that’s now devastated, was preparing to leave, joining others carrying just a few small bags at a bus station.

Immediately after the earthquake, measures were taken for the protection of the statue of Şuppiluliuma, the statue of the Hittite king who left his mark on the history of the Near East for 35 years, Arsuz Steles, Antakya sarcophagus and mosaics.