Excuse me, I believe you mean Türkiye.
Ben de yuzde sifir Turkce.
lol remember?
for after the rescue and recovery, but before the rebuilding…
E’s government is severely corrupt, and they have systematically used massive construction projects as a way to both overtly reward allies and punish enemies. But I don’t doubt that whichever government was in charge at the top, low level corruption and ruthless shortcutting construction standards would still have resulted in an enormous disaster.
Guess who overruled any kind of building standards?
Two more quakes on the 20th, and still they can’t get their responders in place.
The […] controversy is over Diyanet’s edict in response to a question about adopting children whose parents died in the earthquake. The directorate’s High Council of Religious Affairs wrote, “While Islam praised those who aid or take care of orphans, it does not recognize adoption as a legal status.” The three-paragraph text explained that under Islam, adopted children could not inherit from their adopted parents. However, it maintained, there was no obstruction to marriage between adopted children and their adoptive parents, though the topic of marriage was not in the question.
In a country where activists have long fought incest, child abuse and religious wedding ceremonies involving underage girls, the outrage was immediate. The Women’s Platform for Equality (ESIK) made a scathing statement accusing the top religious body of “paving the way for child abuse.” ESIK also recalled a past fatwa — now deleted from the website — saying that under Islam, girls can be married at 9 and boys at 12.
A 2017 report by the Heinrich Boell Foundation found that Turkey has one of the highest rates of underage marriage in Europe, with one in five involving a bride under 18. […]
Secularist news outlets such as Cumhuriyet and Birgun ran the edict in their headlines, pointing out the discrepancy between the fatwa and the Turkish civil code, which allows adopted children to inherit from their adopted parents and bans marriage between adopted and stepparents and their children.
The Union of Turkish Bar Associations criticized the edict for violating at least three articles of the Turkish civil code.
In the face of such reactions, Diyanet backpedaled somewhat Saturday. Issuing a second statement, it accused “people of ill will” of distorting what was written. [and] Islamic scholars agreed that adopted and foster children were not considered kin in Islam, thus reiterating its ruling in softer wording, it underlined that the laws of the country should be respected.
Roughly 40 US states and territories have statutorily entered chat, some more eagerly than others
[clarified Google translate]
Two images.
On the left, the police, yawning, watch the crowds gathered to support Yusuf Ziya Gümüşel (and his wife) who were recently arrested for giving their then 6-year-old daughter in marriage. [The “husband” was also around 6-8 at the time and a student of the father Yusuf, and is alleged to have had sexual relations with her at very young ages for years with the parents’ blessing. This case has been brewing since 2012 when some characteristics were seen in the young woman’s medical exam (at the time she was 14 but claimed to be 21 and married by her choice). The couple are about 27-29 now. This was a difficult story to research as a poor reader of Turkish, so sorry if I have any of the facts wrong here.]
On the right, the same police are detaining socialists who have been organizing solidarity with earthquake victims for weeks and trying to protest the Red Crescent. [The Turkish Red Crescent has been under the control of scandal-ridden government stooges, and both bungled any chance for urgent earthquake relief and has been accused of “disappearing” or laundering millions in contributions, deploying aid based on political favoritism, relief supply reselling scams, and even failing to safely manage donated blood.]
Plans by Turkey’s largest humanitarian organisation - the Turkish Red Crescent – to incorporate assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars into six companies have sparked accusations from insiders that its chief is trying to mount a takeover that could spell the end of its status as a charitable organisation.
[…] the organisation has been dogged by reports of corruption and misspending for years, and the incorporation of its assets should spell the end for its status as a charitable organisation, a Red Crescent director has said.
2020
Police chief and his unit from Tekirdağ (near Istanbul) sent across the country to the earthquake zone as a support force. Chief returns home in official police vehicle loaded with relief supplies he has stolen (“it was determined that the police chief YI carried a large number of heaters, dog food, sanitary napkins, etc., to his home.”).
That’s horrible :(
Did he get arrested and will he be serving jail time? Or are things so corrupt over they’re he’ll walk away almost untouched?
Severe flooding has been impacting the cities in the southeast, including Sanliurfa.
2021 Disaster Planning documents predicted severe flooding of creeks, highways and districts where there were several deaths. The municipality took 41Million Lira loans from Japan for purpose of improving flood control for the metros and streets, but the work was never done for lack of funding. But the city had funds to send .6 million in “aid” to the Taliban-led govt of Afghanistan.
Google translate for tweets working pretty clearly
Ruling party in Turkey hosted a live televised pouring of the foundations for new construction, good news for all those needing new housing after the earthquakes. Hint: elections are May 14.
Above: images from the television
Below: actual photo from the location
(text: ~ Look, there is a video of yesterday’s groundbreaking ceremony. When [the President] said let’s lay the foundation, irons and poured cement were visible in the narrow frame. The next day, we realize that they are making the shakedown of the century.)