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The ones(fault lines) in the Aegean cannot produce much above 7.0 magnitude because of their length. There are countless fault lines running parallel in the Aegean. The region makes more frequent but less powerful quakes. Crete could possibly produce earthquakes up to 9.0 magnitudes because it's...

Is March 18th still a thing?

That's not really an excuse. The core(foundation, columns, beams, floors etc.) of the building cost only like 25 percent of the overall cost of building. Stealing from that 25% is what kills people.

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.

Experiences of a rescue worker in Samandağ, HATAY

What are the missiles we're seeing and what's the size of IWB?

We should withdraw from the existing refugee deal.

The point of creating this fund was to have the money when you need it(after an earthquake) and where you need it.

"The cost of aid provided by Turkish defense industry companies to earthquake zones has exceeded 2 billion ₺. BAYKAR alone provided aid worth 1.8 billion TL." BAYKAR has shown its quality.

In 2011, the Minister of Finance, Mehmet Şimşek answered this question with: "we built roads with it" (Vergiler yol oldu.) In 2020, the Minister of Treasury and Finance has answered the same question with: "It could be spent on any expense." (Herhangi bir yere harcanmış olabilir)...

Not a direct answer to your question but it's related. "In 22 years, 38 billion 227 million dollars of earthquake tax was collected in Turkey. With this tax, 1.3 million houses with an area of 96 square meters could be built. (Euronews)"

Always parroting the same sentence, saying "We will come in one night.", "We will come in one night" .. And fate has brought us to the point we pleaded for "them to come in one night".

There are hundreds of heart wrenching videos on TikTok that'd make you cry your heart out. It's so difficult to comprehend the working conditions of the rescue workers, the experiences of the survivors in the pitch black rubble stuck for days, the dialogs between the rescuers and survivors...

He is in custody. In the video below, the police is reading the police report. He is citing the time, the place and the crime and then shows the criminal's beaten up face and says "he fell off the stairs". :) It's unprofessional but we need it.

When the government itself issues residency permit to illegally built buildings(with no engineering oversight whatsoever) many times, it feels rather pointless to discuss the misdeeds of contractors. Because they would be rewarded for their mischief by the state with an amnesty. Here's the...

There's also the risk of demographic shift in favor of Syrians. If there's an exodus and Turks start to leave the city in masses, then Syrians could make up the majority of the city's population and I think, I don't need to cite the implications of such new realities.

It wasn't an aftershock. It was a separate earthquake from a different fault line. An earthquake with 7.8 magnitude is 1.5 times bigger and releases 2 times more energy(stronger) than a 7.6 magnitude earthquake. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/education/calculator.php

Habertürk TV, Mehmet Akif ERSOY is reporting from Hatay, "I'm sorry to share, I've heard it from many places. They say, 'We are digging and digging and digging and we are about to reach the child, and suddenly, another team comes and says you are done, get out, we will remove them and they...

Israel with 450?