Correspondent in Istanbul
It is a bitter memory, a national trauma difficult to heal.
“
For me, there will always be a before and an after
February 6, 2023
», breathes Mehmet, 42 years old.
That night, this Turkish teacher was warm at home in Istanbul.
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But the earthquake which devastated the south of the country awakened a deep fear: that of the “Big One” in our city of 16 million inhabitants, exposed like 70% of the Turkish population to a seismic risk
,” concedes -he.
A year later, the absence of real lessons learned from the management of the worst disaster in contemporary Turkish history hardly encourages optimism: slowness of first aid, complexity of reconstruction, impunity of real estate developers whose buildings constructed without respect for standards have collapsed like houses of cards…
Traveling on Saturday February 3 to Antakya, one of the most affected cities, President Erdogan handed over the keys to the first 7,000 rebuilt homes...
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