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Turkey: the earthquake reveals the authorities' lack of anticipation

2023-02-07T18:44:03.079Z


Experts denounce the corruption of real estate developers and the government, in this country at the crossroads of three tectonic plates.


Correspondent in Istanbul

It is not for lack of having sounded the alarm bell.

From television interviews to warnings published on his Twitter page with a million subscribers, the Turkish seismologist Naci Görür has been calling for several years for increased

“vigilance”

in the Kahramanmaras region, epicenter of the disaster on Monday, February 6.

“It's a place prone to earthquakes.

Risk reduction measures must be taken now”,

he declared in November 2022 on the set of CNN Türk.

A few days ago, he expressed surprise in the pages of the

Cumhuriyet

newspaper that, with the approach of the May 14 elections, a plan to build 250,000 social housing units had been announced, without the authorities worrying about the

"hundreds of thousands of buildings very exposed"

to seismic risk.

"Nobody listened to me,"

he laments today.

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Could the tragedy, whose toll continues to grow, have been avoided?

"Obviously we can't do anything about it...

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Source: lefigaro

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