A few minutes and the last twenty years of building sub-standard buildings - and allowing these to be builts - even though the earthquake regulations were in place. More than half of the buildings that were completely destroyed are new.
I hope they will be. Along with the inspectors and officials who must have looked the other way.
As they should be. The way those buildings are collapsing or toppling over sideways is criminal.A few minutes and the last twenty years of building sub-standard buildings - and allowing these to be builts - even though the earthquake regulations were in place. More than half of the buildings that were completely destroyed are new.
Some of the biggest contractors have already left the country. They expect to be prosecuted.
Absolutely! Murderers!As they should be. The way those buildings are collapsing or toppling over sideways is criminal.
There is also an Armenian search and rescue team in Adiyaman and we are very grateful.
10 adults - coaches, teachers and parents, are also dead.
This is my biggest issue with people that want everything de-regulated. Some regulations are non-negotiable as man cannot be trusted to do what is right. Such horrible, unnecessary devastation.
It's so infuriating---now over 46,000 dead and how many could have been avoided if construction was not so shoddy?The 12-14 year old girls' and boys' volleyball teams, champions of Northern Cypress, were in a hotel in Adiyaman for a regional tournament.
Now it is confirmed that none of the 25 girls and boys have survived.
It turns out the hotel where they were staying was illegally built and there was a court order for its demolition. 25 young lives are cut short. 25 families will suffer for the rest of their lives. Just so some building company's profits increase by 5%! When will this monstrous greed end?
Please look at their photos here and at how happy they were in this last video, celebrating one of the teams' victory one day before the earthquake.
A great many, judging by how some of the buildings were left standing.
My sister just returned from Turkey after a 10 day stint with a medical team. She was in a remote town and the devastation was overwhelming. She flew there with 200 lbs of donated medical, comfort and essential supplies (4 large checked bags) and only wished she could have brought more.If you have Turkish friends or colleagues, please know that they are not OK.
This wasn't an earthquake, it was Armageddon. On the final count 230.000 buildings have been flattened or very badly damaged. They'll never admit the number of deceased, but the first earthquake was at 4 am when everyone was in bed. So you can imagine. Hundreds of thousands.
I can't stand the suffering of people. Don't know how they survive from one day to the other. People are always tweeting photos of laughing children, young people, whole families. No need to read the tweets, they are all dead.
There is no drinking water in Hatay. Where there is still tap water, this isn't drinkable because leakage from thousands of corpses have contaminated the water.
Give your friends a hug. They need it.
