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In 1947 Turkiye had zero power, there would have been no way to hold on to the oil rich lands, we could not even keep Musul.

What do you expect? It is said at the day of the earthquake the government had planned to enact a new "imar affi" (illegal construction pardoning). But with the earthquake this is postponed. I will bet with you that despite this earthquake they will still do this pardoning quietly when this...

Do village guards know how to handle a wounded with neck, head or spine injuries? Rescuing is not just pulling someone out of the rubble like an ape, you rescue someone with tact and knowledge how to

Turkiye is big enough to house everyone in single store houses, but lacks the regulations and people who can afford it

Turkiye is cursed with idiots, idiot politicians, idiot majors, idiot constructors, idiot people who accept those crap housings without letting their houses checked by independent instances to sue to constructors Too many idiots

About the quality of the buildings I am afraid nothing will change. I have a house in Manisa in a site (group of housings) and proposed to let the buildings (4 flats of 3 high in the site, 90 housings in total) examine by an independent instance, at first many agreed but than when it came to...

German rescue team is leaving Turkiye because of shootings between police and looters. These looters should be hanged, damn idiots do not have respect for the lives, properties and security of others

Not all cables are above ground, there are underground cables too. Flashes stem mostly by shortcut explosions, be it from trafo's or cables above and under the ground

We need to do some self criticizing too. AKP may not be responsible for the bad quality of all buildings, but what is the excuse for buildings younger than 10 years? Where are the regulations, inspections? There is a grave amount of neglect, this should be tackled firstly. All of us bare...

Most likely power cable short circuiting

The ironic sarcasm of the story is that this quake is a pre-warning of the earthquake for Istanbul. The earthquake train is approaching very fast, we know it already for many years but is there any preparation? Nada!

Well soon the blame games will start, people will ask who are the responsible. Constructors will be blamed, state will be blamed, government will be blamed etc. etc. But we have to realize that these things are accumulations of hundreds of years. Where in Turkiye do we have city planning...

there are engineering teams (Istihkam) with gear, excavators etc. etc.. Those teams could have been used

I am afraid we will count far above 30k casualties

Answer is very simple, only in 3rd world countries. I can't tell if our skyscrapers are bad, those seem qualitatively better but the common buildings in Turkiye is of terrible quality. Even hospitals and municipality buildings are crap. We have had an extraordinary earthquake (series) and...

Construction sector can be corrupt, constructors can be animals without conscience. But none of that matters. It is the state institutions who have to do the supervision. If state institutions are rotten than do not expect good constructions from constructors. It says enough why state buildings...

I would care less to be pro or anti government, it is about our people. It is the logic way to do, and I am glad the decision is finally taken. I have friends in Iskenderun and yesterday they were telling we cannot go into our houses as every 10 minutes there are tremors and heavy quakes can...

People have to be moved to Antalya area, away from the earthquake zone. We have thousands of hotels. Firstly too many people in risk areas only slow down rescue works We can shelter millions of Syrians, Afghans and Kurds but not our own people, it is a shame

It is appaling how bad the relief is coordinated. Firstly there are thousands of people who lost their houses or are afraid to enter their homes because of damage. We are a fuckin tourism country with thousands of hotels, why are these people not sheltered in these hotels? Hotels have rooms...

Are you guys sure that IDEF is postponed to July? On the IDEF site it still says May