Erdogan accuses promoters to save his head
The president launches proceedings against the builders of buildings that do not comply with anti-seismic standards, while the earthquake becomes the main issue of the electoral campaign.
To calm the anger of the survivors at the slowness of aid and the fragility of the buildings, Recep Tayyip Erdogan went to Kahramanmaras, one of the cities most affected by the earthquake. February 8, 2023.
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Last Friday, while a team of rescue workers continued their efforts on a pile of rubble in the district of Defne, south of Antakya, Mesut kept asking the same question over and over again: “How could these buildings have collapsed when ‘they were brand new?’ Aunt, nephew, brother, sister and brother-in-law. All perished under the rubble. A carnage. “The government told us that we were ready to face the risk of an earthquake. It was a lie,” he vociferates, his eyes misty.
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