Hazel Ward

RT @RoryStewartUK: Amazing interview - a real privilege to be back in Syria - stunning turn of events and the most incredible story with so…

Whenever Sema Genc enters a room, the first place she looks is the ceiling: would it hold up in an earthquake, or would she be trapped under the rubble again? Two years on, Turks who survived the 2023 quake are being rehoused @AFP 📸@ozannkosee 🎥@cmtyln12 https://t.co/32xTzkPvGR

RT @FulyaOzerkan: 'She jumped out and died': witnesses recall hell of #Turkey hotel #fire our @AFP reportage: https://t.co/2qFzKXF3bA

Negligence played key role in the 78 deaths in the fire at a luxury Turkish ski resort, an expert tells @AFP's @fulyaozerkan 📸@ozannkosee 🎥@cmtyln12 https://t.co/xBVliTmQ29

A huge fire killed at least 76 people as it ripped through a hotel at a popular ski resort in northern Turkey that was packed with winter holidaymakers, including families. @AFP https://t.co/dhn9r33CoK

RT @AFPphoto: #AFP PICTURES OF THE WEEK (28 december - 03 january) https://t.co/iVC3mu0vwO https://t.co/UMP2nyQktV

Finally home in Turkey, Mehmet Erturk cannot eat the bread his wife has made him. After 20 years jailed in Syria, half his teeth are missing and the other half are threatening to fall out @AFP's @remibanet 📸Yasin Akgul 🎥@cmtyln12 report https://t.co/rYPeAbbQ2d

The Syrian military intelligence officers who detained Ghazi Mohammed al-Mohammed told him to forget his name and who he was. They took his papers and told him: "Now you're number 3006." @AFP's @achaon 📸@ozannkosee🎥@dirkaDemir report https://t.co/qq8292PUXV

Rayan Assani, 8, knows next to nothing about Syria, but in a few minutes, this little girl with long black hair and a Barbie backpack will cross the border and head for her family's native Aleppo @AFP's @remibanet 📸Yasin Akgul 🎥@cmtyln12 report https://t.co/ibglfHMpBc

Crowds of visitors wander brilliantly lit shopping aisles, stunned by the abundance of goods on offer in the heart of the former rebel stronghold in northwest Syria @AFP's @achaon 📸@ozannkosee🎥@dirkaDemir report https://t.co/kIo4ClBomF

For the Catholic Marist Brothers of Aleppo, one of nearly a dozen Christian communities in Syria's second city, today's most pressing question is how to decorate the Christmas tree @AFP's @achaon 📸@ozannkosee 🎥@dirkaDemir report https://t.co/CD6S5rqrCf

With Bashar al-Assad gone, Turkey has moved to strike at US-backed Kurdish forces in northeast Syria putting it at sharply at odds with its Western allies, notably the US @AFP's @Grenadinere reports https://t.co/G28zFcKhZz

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken lands in Ankara and heads straight into talks with Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the airport, a US official says @AFP

Riyad Avlar spent 20yrs languishing in Syrian jails, including a decade in Saydnaya, scene of some of the most brutal abuses. Today he has one obsession: documenting the atrocities committed inside its walls @AFP's @remibanet 📸Yasin Akgul 🎥@cmtyln12 https://t.co/eBTsbQA83S

Somalia and Ethiopia have reached a deal to end a nearly year-old bitter dispute following hours of Turkish-brokered talks in Ankara, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said late Wednesday @AFP https://t.co/n6U6NIJKsR

Outside his watch shop in central Aleppo, Ramadan Dali wields his feather duster with gusto, standing on tip-toes to reach the windows to ensure it's ready for customers as hope surges in Syria's second city @AFP's @achaon 📸@ozannkosee 🎥@dirkaDemir https://t.co/Eyn4DotFGo

After 8 years in exile, Ibrahim Abdullah is finally going home, his belongings stuffed into the same simple sports bag he carried when he fled Syria as a young teen @AFP's @RemiBanet & 📸 Yasin AKGUL report from the Turkey-Syrian border https://t.co/SzkoiPFJi6