ISTANBUL: Nothing is ever deleted or forgotten on the Internet. Turkish officials learned that the hard way when grieving users began sharing old tweets and videos embarrassing for the government after last week's
Turkish officials learned that the hard way when grieving users began sharing old tweets and videos embarrassing for the government after last week'sOne clip shows President Recep Tayyip Erdogan congratulating officials for adopting an amnesty law in 2018 forgiving faults in nearly 6 million buildings that failedFilmed during rallies in Hatay, Kahramanmaras and Malatya - all areas badly affected by the Feb 6 disaster - Erdogan boasted that he had"solved the problem" for residents...
But those comments, while well-received by people who avoided losing their homes at the time, now look ill-conceived.in the earthquake-prone region explains the huge death toll, which has climbed above 38,000 in Türkiye and approached 3,700 in Syria. Following a media crackdown,"newspapers destroyed their archives to remove certain words they used in the past and that they now consider improper", Uzunoglu added.
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