On this episode of the Global News podcast 'Whatever Happened To…?', journalist Erica Vella revisits the story of Alan Kurdi and the Syrian refugee crisis.

The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group claimed responsibility for the attack in a post by its Shahada News Agency.

Turkey's foreign ministry said in a statement it "condemns and rejects" the U.S. sanctions, saying Washington's one-sided sanctions were beyond understanding.

Trump's 2018 joke about a turkey disputing the results of a vote is recirculating amid his efforts to do the same.

In recent weeks, EU members have raised the prospect of sanctions against Turkey over its gas exploration missions in the eastern Mediterranean.

Erdogan previously said Turkey and Russia could work together to solve the conflict.

It was the deadliest quake to hit Turkey in nearly a decade.

The overall death toll in Friday's quake reached 87 on Monday after teams found more bodies amid toppled buildings in Izmir, Turkey's third-largest city.

Rescue workers extricated a 70-year-old man from a collapsed building in western Turkey on Sunday, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing at least 60 people and injuring more than 900.

The earthquake, which the Istanbul-based Kandilli Institute said had a magnitude of 6.9, was centred in the Aegean northeast of Samos.