Gaziantep in a sentence

According to official Turkish data, production has stopped on a large scale in the city of Gaziantep over fears of aftershocks in the coming hours and days.

Gaziantep and Kahramanmaraş provinces were also closed to civil flights, while Turkish Airlines (THY) announced that it scheduled additional flights to the earthquake zone.

Gaziantep is one of the worst-hit cities in Turkey where a number of buildings have been destroyed, some falling like house of cards, by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake.

Gaziantep province has a number of small- and medium-sized cities, with a sizable refugee population, according to Brookings Institute fellow Asli Aydintasbas.

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — The death toll from the catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria rose to more than 15,000 as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of collapsed homes in the stricken zone, Turkey’s disaster management agency said Thursday.

In just a few hours, Dahman had become a point of reference for the Syrian community in Gaziantep, as well as women of any background who found themselves alone.

Nearly 900 buildings were destroyed in Gaziantep and Kahramanmaras provinces while many were still asleep.

On Monday, a mixed crew, including members of Turkey’s coalmine rescue team, pulled a 40-year-old woman from the wreckage of a five-storey building in the town of Islahiye, in Gaziantep province.

Relatives wept and chanted as rescuers pulled 17-year-old Adnan Muhammed Korkut from a basement in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, near the quake’s epicenter.

Temperatures in the Turkish city of Gaziantep plunged to minus five degrees Celsius (23 degrees Fahrenheit) early Thursday, but thousands of families spent the night in cars and makeshift tents — too scared or banned from returning to their homes.

The earthquake was felt in Malatya as well as Kahramanmaraş, Adıyaman, Şanlıurfa, and Gaziantep provinces.

The relentless death toll in the earthquake that hit Gaziantep in south-eastern Turkey with a magnitude of 7.8 is now approaching 47,000 people.

The situation is quite different in neighbouring industrial Gaziantep, where Syrians have become the driving force behind the labour-starved textile sector.

The U.S. Geological Survey determined the epicenter of the quake about 20 miles from Gaziantep, a major city and provincial capital 60 miles from the Syrian border, with the high-magnitude tremors felt as far as Cairo in Egypt.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered about 33 kilometers (20 miles) from Gaziantep, a major city and provincial capital.

They felt aftershocks during the journey to Cappadocia which would take them a total of seven hours - two hours from Sanliurfa to Gaziantep and another five hours from there to Cappadocia.

Yet Gaziantep’s award-winning mosaic museum where Roman-era mosaics are displayed remains standing, the Culture Ministry said.

Glory for Gradel, who is now 36 and plays his club football with Turkish side Gaziantep, means he is one of just two Ivorians to have now been an African champion twice, also featuring in the victorious 2015 squad.

And that the Gaziantep Women Platform was launched last year to help more women participate in Syria’s political process.

Police and medics gather outside the privately-run Sanko University Hospital in Gaziantep, Turkey, on Dec. 19, 2020.