Erdogan's Promise to Rebuild Turkey in a Year

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Erdogan has promised to rebuild the country in a year, but experts say it will take at least three years. The length of the process and scale of the destruction is such that it might actually depress local demand for new housing. Erdogan's political prospects could be affected if he doesn't deliver on his promise before May 14 elections.

It will be years until the country recovers from February’s devastating earthquakes—but progress toward that goal will determine whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wins another mandate next month. Oft-overlooked data suggest that Africa’s baby boom is slowing, in a “demographic transition” the world has seen before. And remembering Traute Lafrenz, the last leafleter of the “White Rose” Nazi resistance.

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