On Thursday morning, thousands of Turks gathered for a candle Vigil in Antakya city, marking the exact moment when 7.8 magnitude earthquakes occurred in 2023, killing 53,000 people.
About 40,000 buildings were leveled in the morning disaster and another 200,000 was severely damaged. So it was killed in northern Syria, where 6,000 people were killed.
Grief, however, was not the only feeling on the performance. What anger is clear, with the one who collects chanting, “Can anyone hear me?” That Roe was heard from the people trapped in the debris in cold temperature, sometimes waiting for days and weeks to rescue.
Others made banners demanding government accountability.
Ottoman rejected greedy builders and officers, called the event a ‘genocide’
“It was necessary for the earthquake, it was a massacre,” some shouted.
Most of the earthquake-prone areas in the world-one large-scale damage in one-are seen as a product of builders’ greed by many people; And the local, regional and national leaders who approved the curiosity at the inappropriate building sites.
At that time, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the geological phenomenon, with about two million Turks homeless, “century disaster.” Of those who were displaced, about 670,000 are still living in containers.
Erdogan, who later wants to attend a memorial ceremony in Adiaaman during the day, said in a statement, “We will continue our reconstruction and restoration efforts with hard work, sweat, patience and iron until our cities Do not return to your feet. ”
Erdogan does not deliver on reconstruction, yet praises his own record
Despite Erdogan’s Monday’s claim, “We are fortunate that 201,431 its correct owners have been independent of least as aner,” promised to remove recovery efforts.
In Ankara, the government vowed to build some 650,000 houses in a total of 650,000 and 319,000 within the first year after the tragedy.
Opposition CHP leader Ozel called Erdogan and his AKP party out, said: “Only three of the ten who believed that there are now houses, while other are living in seven containers (…) two years old. For containers in the eyes and we say that we “maintain our promise, thank you God?”
Accountability and lessons learned from Turkish earthquake?
To date, 189 people have been arrested and imprisoned in connection with the tragedy, for the most negligence. Currently, 1,850 1.342 cases are on tests.
The ongoing tremors in the Aegean Sea near the Greek island of Centorini have reduced the possibility of another earthquake in Türkiye.
This week, the Minister of Environment and Urbanization Murrat Kurum played the alarm, announcing that Istanbul may soon be for destruction, a “Big One” warning of a “Big One” warning of 15.6 million, killing the metropolis of 15.6 million, which is just 15 kilometers (9 Mile) is far away. North Annatolian Faultline.
“Istanbul does not have strength with another earthquake with width,” Kurum said – 600,000 houses may collapse. “
In 1999, more than 1,000 Istanbul residents were killed by an earthquake that was killed nearby. In all, some were killed in 17,000 incidents.
Edited by: Wesley Dakri
