Three people were put behind bars by Sunday, and seven more have been detained. Read more at straitstimes.com.
One of the biggest single disasters struck a hotel housing two dozen Cypriot students and 15 accompanying adults who were in Turkey for a volleyball tournament.NTV television said the hotel was briefly closed due to construction “irregularities”. But then it reopened its doors.
“I want these people to face justice. They are murderers,” an unnamed witness of the hotel’s collapse told NTV. The earthquake has become the region’s deadliest natural disaster in more than 80 years. PHOTO: NYTIMESMr Erdogan has responded to the anger by arguing that no one could have been prepared to deal with Turkey’s “worst disaster in history”.
But the waves of arrests and investigations represent a marked change in attitude towards an industry that has helped transform Turkey’s underdeveloped regions while enjoying a profitable boom.Six months passed before Turkey arrested the first suspect in the wake of another disastrous quake in 1999.Officials eventually opened 2,100 investigations against developers of collapsed buildings. They did not lead to much.The courts found fault in only 110 cases.
“A private company conducted the control procedure,” Ms Seyfettin Yeral told the T24 news site. “We do not have employees who can do such work.”
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