@Region Philbis,
It can't, but previous quakes have been more devastating when certain planning laws were ignored.
I'm thinking of Italy here.
Whether or not that's the case in Turkey I don't know.
I do know that there has been a lot of anger about the slow response, and Erdogan, dictator that he is, has had people arrested for criticising the government.
His base, like most conservative/reactionaries is rural, and that's what's been hit.
If anything good can come of this hopefully Erdogan will be kicked out on his ear at the next election.
This opinion piece was written a couple of days before the earthquake, and I agree with all of it.
Quote:That Turkey is a “vital strategic ally” of the west is the sort of truism on which people such as Joe Biden and Jens Stoltenberg, Nato’s secretary general, are raised. Yet what if the old saw no longer holds true? What if Turkey’s leader, exploiting this notion, betrays western interests in a pretence of partnership? Should not that leader be treated as a liability, a threat – even ostracised as an enemy?
Geography doesn’t change. Turkey wields significant influence at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Yet the increasingly aggressive, authoritarian and schismatic policies pursued at home and abroad over two decades by its choleric sultan-president have upended long-cherished assumptions. Turkey’s reliability and usefulness as a trusted western ally is almost at an end.
[url]guardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/05/turkeys-two-faced-sultan-is-no-friend-of-the-west-its-time-to-play-hardball[/url]
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