TR Aftermath of the earthquakes in Turkey's South-east

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It has been saıd this little girl died at hospital because of internal injuries. She should've been treated with care but son of bitches like this seeking for attention on the social media and possibly make the situation even worse. Unfortunately, we have many many illiterate idiots like this.
 
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You are really talking nonsense here.

1. Even if the relatives bury the corpse, they still need to obtain a death certificate afterwards aka inform the state about the demise of its citizen.

2. If the government wanted to tamper with the figures, they wouldn't have published the number of missing or injured people in the first place. Second of all, too many people have suffered in one way or another from this earthquake. You cannot just cover it up. This is a natural disaster of enormous proportions.

3. As a person whose relative couldn't be found under the rubble even though they looked through the debris several times, let me tell you one thing: Nobody starts with the cleanup as long as rescuers or former residents are convinced that bodies are entombed under the rubble.

In my case, the police took DNA samples from the missing person's close relatives to run it through the database.

In addition, a human body does not rot in 10 days especially not if the weather conditions are cold.

Last but not least: AFAD is a shitty organization because one kid couldn't get a heater asap?! THOUSANDS have been pulled out of the rubble alive and survived but this is what you base your opinion on?
Villages, even the officials have not stepped in yet, roads are not in an accessible form. Most of villages barely received life supply for once in 10 days.

Reread my message, i am implying that death certificate will be given maybe a month later, there is at least a dozen bodies buried without a certificate.

In first days i knew people who extracted bodies as soon as possible and buried them without a certificate, if you slightly had any idea about the situation you would know government has an open desk to declare deaths, which still haven't registered majority of whom buried in first days. People has no time for shit.

They are not trying to tamper numbers, but government knows how many people are under the rumbles and how many extracted with sufficient accuracy to share with public but they hold this information only to themselves. I had friends who works around iskenderun - antakya and they clearly kept telling they can't walk around without a full-face masks.

It is not one kid but thousands. If you scrolled through some tvs despite of not showing all, you would see families living in rearside of a truck or huts made by themselves using blankets as wall.

Yes AFAD is a shitty and rotten organization.
 

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Lets not sugarcoat it that much

I know that the extent of the earthquake is unprecedented and no one in the current AFAD administration have an experience in preparing against 2 consecutive 7.8 magnitude earthquakes and that many of the affected cities had its airports and roads damaged and unusable but lets admit that AFAD does bear some of the responsibility. Therefore, I do agree that many who states bullshit propaganda against AFAD just to incite hatred and gain votes but....

Even Erdogan himself admitted that AFAD initial response to the earthquake was subpar and that way more ppl could have been saved; especially in the first 2 days of the event.
let alone a 7.8 earthquake AFAD wouldn't be able to respond to one 7.5.

The agency is filled with 'manager, aka mudur" who walks around in shiny shoes, clean booths and jackets. their only task was to organize and they have failed big time at this task.

There is a diary of a miner which clearly shows how corrupted and failed AFAD was.

They couldn't even direct people from point A to B, not referring to transferring them but just to assign them.
 

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I just watched Hasan Uylaş's broadcast from haberglobal, in Antakya Cebrail neighborhood. Hasan Uylaş is from Antakya, where he lost his father and 3 nephews on the beşinci asmaçiçek street. One by one he showed the streets where he spent his childhood and youth. The neighborhood is about 50% completely destroyed. It is one of the most devastated neighborhoods. This neighborhood was included in the urban transformation plan by the main city municipality. The building stock in the neighborhood is 35-40 years old on average. The rebuilded buildings were damaged but not collapsed. However, dozens of buildings could not be renovated due to the objections of the right holders. People objected, and many apartment owners delayed the reconstruction process in order to make more gains. The result was that the bodies of many of these people were taken out from the collapsed buildings.

I touched on this issue in an previous post. The situation in Istanbul is perhaps 100 times the scale of Hatay. Transformation only by economic rent and raising floors is not the right method. We cannot renovate the building stock at the required pace without the state and the people making sacrifices together. I am afraid this issue will remain on the agenda for a few more months and then we will forget about it again, until another disaster strikes.
 

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Havildar Rahul Chaudhary, who was preparing to welcome his child to the world, was torn between his duty towards his country and family. His passport was already stamped.


By Gaurav C Sawant: Havildar Rahul Chaudhary was called in to be a part of the 99-member team India was sending to Turkey and Syria to help with relief and rescue work after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck.

“I went straight to my seniors and told them about my wife’s cesarean surgery scheduled for February 8. He asked me to speak with my wife and when I told her, she asked me to go with my team. She told me I should serve my country first,” Chaudhary told India Today TV.

“I quickly packed my bags and left to join my team,” he said.

As he boarded the flight, he got to know that his wife had been wheeled into the operation theatre. As soon as he landed, he got news about his newborn son. His colleagues and friends at the army hospital want him to name his child 'Turki Chaudhary'.

Another Army personnel, Sipahi Kamlesh Kumar Chauhan from Gorakhpur in UP, became father to a son after landing in Turkey.

The death toll from the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 has crossed 34,000. Several countries in the world have sent in teams to help the search and rescue operations in Turkey and Syria, which have been reduced to rubble after a series of earthquakes. India too sent in troops under ‘Operation Dost’.
This song clearly depict the scene, God bless all of the volunteers around the world

 

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The Bangladeshi team ended its search and rescue operation in Turkey's quake-hit Adiyaman province Thursday. The Bangladesh team has so far saved a 17-year-old girl from the rubble and recovered 23 bodies so far, Shahjahan Sikder, deputy assistant director of the fire service headquarters media cell, said Thursday.

It will be redeployed to Hatay, one of the 10 provinces that were hit by the 7.8 magnitude quake and multiple aftershocks. The rescue team left for Hatay, 380 kilometres away from Adiyaman, in the morning and will continue to play its part in the rescue effort in the province till Sunday.

 

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Monetary and Humanitarian Scale of the disaster is gradually coming out in to the open.
According to the related government minister, over 56000 buildings (some 292000 homes) are badly damaged and are not fit to live, in the quake affected zone. Hence are to be immediately knocked down.
Add to these around 11000 buildings that have been reported as collapsed; It would make 67000 buildings (around 350000 homes).
That means well over a million to million and a half people are to be homeless.

TURKONFED estimates the real cost of the quake to Turkish economy as big as 84billion dollars.
However the US based investment bank JPMorgan estimates the effect to be in the region of 2.5% of the GDP; Which would equate to around 25 billion dollars. This is in line with the Goldman Sachs prediction of 25-30 billion dollars.
 

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Monetary and Humanitarian Scale of the disaster is gradually coming out in to the open.
According to the related government minister, over 56000 buildings (some 292000 homes) are badly damaged and are not fit to live, in the quake affected zone. Hence are to be immediately knocked down.
Add to these around 11000 buildings that have been reported as collapsed; It would make 67000 buildings (around 350000 homes).
That means well over a million to million and a half people are to be homeless.

TURKONFED estimates the real cost of the quake to Turkish economy as big as 84billion dollars.
However the US based investment bank JPMorgan estimates the effect to be in the region of 2.5% of the GDP; Which would equate to around 25 billion dollars. This is in line with the Goldman Sachs prediction of 25-30 billion dollars.
Who will build these buildings? Are they all gonna be a few types houses that TOKİ will build with some subcontractors? If that's the case, the cities would look very dull and bland with no character.
 

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Who will build these buildings? Are they all gonna be a few types houses that TOKİ will build with some subcontractors? If that's the case, the cities would look very dull and bland with no character.
Renowned architects (both Turkish and known globally, also foreigners) are offering help, expertise for free, to design future of cities, even for the temporary container residences.

However on the other hand we have architects whom does not nothing but copies the ottoman style domes and lines, and charges.

Which side would win, in your opinion?
 

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Another AFAD branch manager has claimed there is no survivors in any of the buildings.

Note: hour 258, another woman rescued alive.

Isn't the motive clear? They are rushing to clean ground, and he also lies, they do touch rumbles with dead bodies inside and not really working hard to rescue corpses.
 

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They want to leave the earthquake behind them, change the agenda as fast as possible. Everyone knows why.
 

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If the Seljuks and Ottomans can natural disaster proof their buildings without even using any kind of modern technology what excuses does modern day Turkiye have today?

Mix of greed, corruption and rampant capitalism.

Why capitalism because dont mistake me for a bleeding heart socialist. If you have people putting money before lives we have a big problem.

Im really thinking those mutahits knew their buildings were garbage but most likely shrugged it off.
 

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I really cant understand Erdogan , he is on the edge of losing the election and this before the earthquake, but with how he is acting at moment he will lose it for sure . The issue here that he is not trying to change and don’t give a fuck

What’s going on inside his mind ?!
 

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