Wednesday, February 15, 2023

In wake of Turkey's destructive earthquake, President Erdogan's chickens come home to roost

 
HeadlineNPR, 2/13/2023
Screenshot at bottomVoice of America News
In one video, taken during a campaign stop ahead of Turkey's March 2019 local elections, Erdogan listed some of his government's top achievements — including new housing for the city of Kahramanmaras, also known as Maras, near the epicenter of last week's quake. 

"We solved the problem of 144,156 citizens of Maras with zoning amnesty," Erdogan said, using his term for the construction amnesties handed out to allow contractors to ignore the safety codes that had been put on the books specifically to make apartment blocks, houses and office buildings more resistant to earthquakes. [emphasis added]

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