Death toll due to earthquake in Turkey-Syria has crossed 26 thousand, what is the reason for Erdogan’s repeated admission of fault?

The death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquake has crossed 26,000, while many are still missing. Multi-storey buildings, homes, malls and offices have been reduced to dust and rubble in the worst-affected cities, including Kahramanmaras, Hatay, Gaziantep and Nurdagi, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake and several aftershocks struck Turkey. UN aid chief Martin Griffiths on Saturday described the devastating earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northwestern Syria as “the worst to hit the region in 100 years”. Rescue operations continued on Saturday and a dozen people were pulled alive from the rubble on Friday, more than a hundred hours after the quake.

Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife Asma visited survivors at Aleppo University Hospital, according to media. It was the leader’s first public appearance in an affected area of ​​the country since the disaster. With the help of the United Nations, the Syrian Red Crescent and the International Red Cross, aid will be delivered to those who need it. According to Turkey’s Minister of Environment and Urban Planning, Murat Kurum, about 12,000 buildings have either collapsed or been severely damaged in Turkey. Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay said that more than one million people have been kept in temporary shelters.

Regarding the devastation caused by the earthquake in Turkey, experts are of the opinion that the country’s weak building policies and failure to implement modern construction regulations have also led to such a large number of deaths. They say that the real estate boom came in areas that were seismically sensitive, but modern construction laws were completely ignored here. Experts in geology and engineering have long been warning, and laxity in the implementation of policies and laws is under fresh scrutiny after this week’s devastating earthquakes. The earthquake destroyed thousands of buildings and killed thousands of people in Turkey and Syria.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, “We have the largest relief and rescue team in the world right now, but it is a reality that relief and rescue operations are not as fast as we would like. Erdogan is standing for re-election in the poll. His opponent has used the issue of laxity in relief and rescue work after the earthquake to attack him. Even before the earthquake, the return to power was the most difficult challenge for Erdogan.