One year after the earthquake: No sigh of relief in Turkey, but boos against Erdogan. Botched construction and official failure contributed to the extensive damage to buildings and the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
Officials put the number of deaths at around 50,000, but there are many doubts about that. Authorities in Turkey reacted too slowly after the quake, according to a report by the human rights organization TIHV (Turkish Human Rights Foundation) For days neither the military nor the AFAD civil protection agency were seen.