ADIYAMAN, Turkey – With anger swelling in Turkey on Saturday over the government’s slow response to Monday’s devastating earthquake and what critics say was shoddy construction, the government began detaining building contractors across the country whom it blamed for some of the collapses that have helped drive the death toll in the country above 25,000. Read more at straitstimes.com.
and what critics say was shoddy construction, the government began detaining building contractors across the country whom it blamed for some of the collapses that have helped drive the death toll in the country above 25,000.
It also directed them to appoint prosecutors to bring criminal charges against all the “constructors and those responsible” for the collapse of buildings that failed to meet existing codes, which had been put in place after a similar disaster in 1999. Across the earthquake zone, residents expressed outrage at what they said were corrupt builders who cut corners to fatten their profits and the government’s granting of “amnesties” to builders who put up apartment complexes that failed to meet the new codes.builder of a collapsed complex in the hard-hit city of Gaziantep, who was charged with involuntary manslaughter and violation of public construction law, a Turkish news agency reported.
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