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We get an update on last week’s earthquakes from Turkish parliament member Hişyar Özsoy, in the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakır in southern Turkey, who says the devastation there reflects a lack of planning and regulation that led to so many buildings collapsing. “This is not a natural disaster in Turkey. It is a human-made disaster,” says Özsoy.


This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Citations

[1] “A Human-Made Disaster”: Kurdish MP in Southern Turkey Slams Government as Death Toll Hits 42,000 | Democracy Now! ➤ http://www.democracynow.org/2023/2/16/turkey_earthquake_building_regulations