In Antakya, hundreds of people are said to be trapped in the ruins of a collapsed 12-story building. The building had a reputation as one of the highest quality in the area.
10.2. 21:48
Turkey Police on Friday arrested a contractor who had tried to flee the country after the building he owned collapsed following Monday’s powerful earthquake. According to the news agency AFP, the Turkish state media reports on the matter.
The police arrested the man at the Istanbul airport, where the man had gone in order to fly to Montenegro.
Monday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks have collapsed thousands of buildings in Turkey and Syria. The death toll from the devastating earthquakes has even exceeded the World Health Organization WHO’s estimate of 20,000 deaths on Tuesday.
By Friday evening, according to AFP, the number of dead had already been confirmed at almost 23,000.
in Turkey the collapse of thousands of buildings has sparked outrage over the quality of the buildings. The collapse of a 12-story luxury building in Antakya, owned by an arrested contractor, has received special publicity.
A Ghanaian soccer player playing in Turkey Christian Atsun believed to have remained in the collapsed building. In total, more than 800 people are said to be still buried in the ruins of the apartment complex, says CNN Türk.
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The anger is especially related to the collapsed building’s reputation and year of completion. There were 250 apartments in the building, and they were advertised as being of particularly high quality. The building was considered one of the most durable in the province of Hatay, but Monday’s earthquakes caused it to collapse and destroy the surrounding buildings as well.
Note the year of manufacture is also put: 2012. In Turkey, new houses should be durable.
In particular, building regulations and supervision were tightened after the devastating 1999 earthquake in the city of İzmit. At the time, the Turks blamed the construction companies for the destruction that led to the death of at least 17,000 people.
Turkey has world-class construction skills, but the construction boom of the late 2000s, for example, brought with it algae-based behavior, corruption and dangerous cold, told Former architect living in Istanbul Kerem Tuncay for HS in Afşin, Turkey.
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