Survival and loss in Turkey’s earthquake ruins
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Construction in Turkey - What's the Problem?
A lot of the focus on Turkey has been on the construction of the buildings themselves. There's a sense among people that there's a kind of low-level corruption of building regulations and inspections, he says. As pre-election sweeteners, amnesties were repeatedly granted for buildings that didn't meet the standards,. Hundreds of thousands of buildings were legalized that way, including in the disaster zone.
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