Anger grows in Turkey as death toll passes 16,000

TL;DR

With their homes destroyed, thousands spent a freezing Wednesday night amid the debris in the streets of Adiyaman, huddled around small fires and with little shelter. Osman Yıldırım, a civil engineer, said that after the last major earthquake hit Turkey in 1999, a torrent of new regulations were introduced to make buildings more resistant, but the government didn’t go far enough. “To assume that there will not be any socioeconomic and political consequences of this collective trauma is naivete,” she added

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