Golcuk was one of the Turkish cities struck by a devastating earthquake in August 1999.Enric Marti/Associated Press The death toll in Turkey from the two earthquakes that devastated the country ...
August 17 marks the 25th anniversary of the 1999 Kocaeli/Gölcük earthquake. At 3.02 am in the morning, an earthquake with a magnitude of at least 7.4 Mw struck the North Anatolian Fault Line, causing ...
Shortly after the earthquake, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged 319,000 new homes by February 2024, with a total of 680,000 by 2025. This was just months ahead of general elections, and these ...