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Couldn't find a thread about this and people might like to share their thoughts and talk about it. I know the Turkish community in Melbourne is huge. Also apparently 4 Australians are unaccounted for in the region.
Some of the towns levelled have excess of 300,000 people living in them. This is going to be worse than the 1999 Izmit earthquake, guarantee it. Officials predicting at least 20,000 dead in Türkiye alone. I think it'll be more.
I have a Turkish friend who lives in Samsun on the Black Sea coast. He said it's the worst thing he's ever experienced as a Turkish citizen. He's fortunate he didn't know anyone personally from the area, but friends of friends do (someone's parents from Hatay, haven't heard a word and it's assumed they're dead and buried). Rescue efforts have been too slow. Govt too slow to react. Roads destroyed, airports ripped up. Bitter winter with snow. No food or water. People will die of exposure if they didn't die after being buried in rubble.
This Turkish-American Youtuber did a great video about the situation and explained why it was so bad. He talks about the infrastructure ('poor infrastructure kills people, not the quake') criticises the Govt for their slowness and not deploying the military to help, how the Govt have lined their pockets with funds that should have gone to creating quake-proof structures... it's unbelievable the scale of corruption. Officials are DOWNPLAYING how many people have died... There's an election looming and Erdoğan might lose and he's probably afraid of that happening. My Turkish mate was saying now the Govt has restricted Twitter access due to "disinformation", which thousands of people were using to try and get rescuers to help find them as they are buried under the rubble. What kind of country DOES that to their people?
Some of the towns levelled have excess of 300,000 people living in them. This is going to be worse than the 1999 Izmit earthquake, guarantee it. Officials predicting at least 20,000 dead in Türkiye alone. I think it'll be more.
I have a Turkish friend who lives in Samsun on the Black Sea coast. He said it's the worst thing he's ever experienced as a Turkish citizen. He's fortunate he didn't know anyone personally from the area, but friends of friends do (someone's parents from Hatay, haven't heard a word and it's assumed they're dead and buried). Rescue efforts have been too slow. Govt too slow to react. Roads destroyed, airports ripped up. Bitter winter with snow. No food or water. People will die of exposure if they didn't die after being buried in rubble.
This Turkish-American Youtuber did a great video about the situation and explained why it was so bad. He talks about the infrastructure ('poor infrastructure kills people, not the quake') criticises the Govt for their slowness and not deploying the military to help, how the Govt have lined their pockets with funds that should have gone to creating quake-proof structures... it's unbelievable the scale of corruption. Officials are DOWNPLAYING how many people have died... There's an election looming and Erdoğan might lose and he's probably afraid of that happening. My Turkish mate was saying now the Govt has restricted Twitter access due to "disinformation", which thousands of people were using to try and get rescuers to help find them as they are buried under the rubble. What kind of country DOES that to their people?
