{"id":285895,"date":"2023-02-11T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/02\/11\/fury-grief-and-questions-as-turkey-earthquake-deaths-top-24000\/"},"modified":"2023-02-11T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T08:45:00","slug":"fury-grief-and-questions-as-turkey-earthquake-deaths-top-24000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/02\/11\/fury-grief-and-questions-as-turkey-earthquake-deaths-top-24000\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury, Grief And Questions As Turkey Earthquake Deaths Top 24,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-02\/3olp75mg_turkey-earthquake_625x300_07_February_23.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\"><span itemprop=\"video\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"Tales Of Endurance, Hope Amid Despair After Turkey Quake\"\/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Tales Of Endurance, Hope Amid Despair After Turkey Quake\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Tales Of Endurance, Hope Amid Despair After Turkey Quake\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-02\/3olp75mg_turkey-earthquake_625x300_07_February_23.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-02-11T14:15:14+05:30\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=681782&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\"\/><meta itemprop=\"ContentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/ndtvod.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com\/23372\/ndtv\/11022023_n_TanuOb_148032_121687_320.mp4\"\/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"T11M23S\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"videoembed\" class=\"videembedload\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-02\/3olp75mg_turkey-earthquake_625x300_07_February_23.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=681782&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100%; height:403px; padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left:0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">The full extent of the damage is unknown from Monday&#8217;s 7.8-magnitude tremor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Ankara: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The apartments they once industriously spent so long saving up for, decorating and making comfortable now lie in a heap of rubble after a violent quake hit Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>New and old buildings, some constructed only six months ago, fell apart. Others flattened like concrete pancakes.<\/p>\n<p>The full extent of the damage is unknown from Monday&#8217;s 7.8-magnitude tremor and ceaseless aftershocks, which unleashed catastrophe in Turkey and Syria, killing more than 24,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s death count rises every day. In parallel, so has fury over why, in a country with multiple fault lines and a history of major jolts, building quality is so poor that buildings fall apart like paper.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say Turkey has the regulations in place to prevent such a catastrophe. But they are only applied loosely by construction companies, the largest of which are often close to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say 12,141 buildings were either destroyed or seriously damaged in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Since the first quake was so huge, &#8220;damage was to be expected, but not the type of damage that you are seeing now&#8221;, said Mustafa Erdik, a professor at Istanbul-based Bogazici University.<\/p>\n<p>Even if a building topples, people can usually hide until searchers can rescue them, he said.<\/p>\n<p>But this time, he added, buildings suffered &#8220;a pancake collapse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The floors are piling on top of each other,&#8221; Erdik, also part of the Turkish Earthquake Foundation said, which means the chances of being found alive are slim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Poor quality cement &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>So why did the buildings topple?<\/p>\n<p>The causes are usually linked to the poor quality of the concrete, which sometimes is mixed with too much water and gravel, and too little concrete, according to Zihni Tekin, a consultant at Istanbul Technical University.<\/p>\n<p>Other reasons include steel rods that are too thin to support the columns, which limit the building&#8217;s strength, the engineer said.<\/p>\n<p>But Tekin also blamed engineers and architects&#8217; low quality of education, despite private universities appearing across Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish officials have also gambled by easing regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s rules on construction, based on California&#8217;s, have been regularly revised since a 1999 tremor in northwestern Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The last revision came in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On paper, standards are respected, with contracts entrusted to private companies in charge of checking them,&#8221; Istanbul architect Aykut Koksal said.<\/p>\n<p>But oversight of these agreements is lax, he added, giving builders greater leeway in following &#8212; or not &#8212; the rules.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Fury over negligence, greed &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Heavy bureaucratic procedures also end up diluting who is responsible if or when something goes wrong, Erdik said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The steps and signatories are so many that at the end, it is difficult to identify who is responsible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To fix this issue, he recommends imposing an insurance on all actors against malpractice that guarantees victims compensation by guilty contractors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s how it is elsewhere in the world and it should be in Turkey,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The clear negligence and greed shown by some contractors has sparked fury, especially after luxury flats built within the last 20 years crumbled like a pack of cards.<\/p>\n<p>Many hope this quake will finally lead to better monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>The first legal complaint was made on Friday in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir and others have followed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Erdogan&#8217;s vow to rebuild &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>What has particularly raised hackles is the importance Erdogan has placed on construction since his Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The boom in construction powered the substantial economic growth under Erdogan in the early years of his rule.<\/p>\n<p>Official figures show the number of companies operating in the real estate sector increased by 43 percent in 10 years, reaching 127,000 before the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>With Erdogan promising to rebuild the affected area within a year, the real estate frenzy is not likely to slow down.<\/p>\n<p>Many speculate on the risk posed by high-rise buildings in Istanbul, which is anticipating its own passive jolt.<\/p>\n<p>But for Erdik, the main concern is the &#8220;buildings with six, seven and eight floors built by small companies or even the families themselves&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He is not the only one fearful of lax building safety.<\/p>\n<p>Since Monday, he has received never-ending calls from developers asking him to urgently assess their towers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/turkey-earthquake-fury-grief-and-questions-as-turkey-earthquake-deaths-top-24-000-3773415\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The full extent of the damage is unknown from Monday&#8217;s 7.8-magnitude tremor Ankara: The apartments they once industriously spent so long saving up for, decorating and making comfortable now lie in a heap of rubble after a violent quake hit Turkey. 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