Erdogan's main thrust is to focus on what he calls national unity. He has promised that Turkey will rebuild hundreds of thousands of buildings within a year. There have been some interventions on the economic front, including in the stock market.
Thousands of buildings collapsed after Turkey’s massive earthquakes. Now President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is facing a backlash for an amnesty program that gave developers retroactive approval for shoddy construction.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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