Van Province

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Last week's earthquake in southeast Turkey killed 40 people, bringing the death toll in two tremors over the last three weeks to 644, the state Disaster and Emergency Administration (AFAD) said on Sunday.

The death toll from a 5.6 magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Turkey rose to 40 on Saturday, the prime minister's emergency unit said.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The first heavy snows of winter piled misery on thousands of earthquake survivors in eastern Turkey on Saturday as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan visited the quake zone amid rising anger among homeless families over relief efforts.

Rescue teams searched Thursday for survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 12 people, toppled buildings and sowed panic less than three weeks after a massive deadly quake in the same area.

An earthquake rocked eastern Turkey, killing seven people and toppling buildings less than three weeks after a massive quake killed more than 600 people in the same area.

A 5.6 magnitude earthquake killed at least five people in eastern Turkey, less than three weeks after a massive quake killed more than 600 in the same area, a government official said.

A 5.7 magnitude earthquake killed at least three people in eastern Turkey, less than three weeks after a massive quake killed more than 600 in the same area, state-run TRT television reported.

ERCIS, Turkey (Reuters) - The death toll from last week's earthquake in southeast Turkey rose to 596 Sunday, the day after authorities stopped searching for survivors and focused on helping thousands of homeless families in crisis.

ERCIS, Turkey (Reuters) - The death toll from last week's earthquake in southeast Turkey rose to 596 Sunday, the day after authorities stopped searching for survivors and focused on helping thousands of homeless families in crisis.

BINGOL, Turkey (Reuters) - A female suicide bomber in southeast Turkey killed three people and wounded around 20 in Bingol, a town in the mainly Kurdish region on Saturday, police said.

ERCIS Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey struggled to provide shelter on Wednesday to tens of thousands left homeless by an earthquake that killed nearly 500, and rescue teams began taking painful decisions to call off searches for those buried alive.

The rescue of a two-week-old baby girl, her mother and grandmother from the rubble of Turkey's devastating earthquake has electrified emergency crews as their search stretched into a fourth day.

Rescuers plucked a two-week-old baby girl, her mother and grandmother from the rubble of Turkey's devastating earthquake Tuesday, sparking scenes of joy that electrified search efforts.

ERCIS, Turkey (Reuters) - Rescuers pulled a two-week-old baby girl alive from a collapsed apartment block on Tuesday as they battled to find survivors of an earthquake in eastern Turkey that killed more than 400 people and made tens of thousands homeless.

Hopes faded Tuesday of finding more survivors as rescuers under floodlights scrabbled desperately through the rubble of an earthquake that killed at least 279 people in eastern Turkey.

Rescuers scrambled Monday to find survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 279 people in eastern Turkey as residents readied to spend a second night outside in the freezing cold.

The 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Van province in eastern Turkey on Sunday, causing hundreds of fatalities, underscores the country's fate to be straddling one of the world's most active seismic zones.

Rescuers searched Monday for victims of a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey that killed at least 217 people, with more feared trapped in the rubble of dozens of collapsed apartment buildings.

Iran and Turkey opened a third border crossing Saturday, with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu proclaiming the two neighbours "friends for eternity," Anatolia news agency reported.

The Greek Orthodox faithful flocked to the cliffside setting of Sumela monastery in northeast Turkey on Sunday after Ankara allowed mass to be celebrated here for the first time in 88 years.