Peter Kenyon

The Turkish president's campaign for another term after two decades in power hit a bump this week when he fell ill.

The parties making up a coalition to unseat Turkey's powerful president in next month's elections have little in common, But they're trying to rally around a common goal.

The man challenging Turkey's president in the next election is a former accountant and long-time political party leader whose low-key profile might be attractive to voters tired of volatile politics.

Protesters in Iran talk about the state of their movement as they continue to demand sweeping changes to the country's strict laws. (Story first aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on April 2, 2023.)

Iranian protesters talk about the state of their movement now as they continue to demand sweeping changes in the country's strict laws governing their lives.

Finland has been approved as a member of NATO after Turkey voted on its membership Thursday. Finland could become a member of the alliance in the coming days.

Brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, the deal allows Ukraine to ship food and fertilizer through a humanitarian corridor from Black Sea ports. The duration of the extension remained uncertain.

Housing is still scarce for thousands of people who lost their homes in last month's earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. A 16th-century Ottoman complex is now home to some families in Turkey.

Allegations of poisonings at dozens of girls schools has prompted responses from Iran's supreme leader and others, showing the pressures on the government to respond to continued unrest.

A visit to one Turkish town near the area devastated by this month's earthquakes finds hundreds of thousands of people who were evacuated and are now scrambling to find places to live.

Some of those who lost their homes in the earthquakes that devastated southern Turkey still need tents - and dream of someday having a container to live in.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Turkey for a first-hand look at the earthquake damage and recovery efforts. He'll also meet with officials to discuss NATO and the war in Ukraine.

As Turkey's leaders promise a swift start to reconstruction efforts in the earthquake zone, attention is also turning to Istanbul — and whether Turkey's largest city is ready for a major quake.

After an earthquake devastated southern Turkey, the mayor of faraway Istanbul warned that some 90,000 buildings could collapse if a quake hits there.

The warning for Turkey's largest city comes as the death toll from last week's quake in Turkey and northern Syria now exceeds 40,000.

The powerful Turkish president is facing increasing criticism over poor building standards after the earthquake that caused thousands of structures to collapse.

Videos have surfaced in Turkish media of the president in 2019 praising a policy that let builders off the hook for skirting safety codes that could have made buildings more quake resistant.

People buried under rubble in southern Turkey continue to defy the odds, surviving freezing weather and a week without water. A 40-year-old woman was pulled alive in Gaziantep province early Monday.

Authorities in Turkey have detained more than 130 people who were allegedly involved in the construction of buildings that collapsed in last week's earthquake.

In the southern Turkish city of Osmaniye, people squeeze into tents or sleep in cars near their damaged homes nearly a week after the massive earthquake struck.