Ila Jean Yacley: Building practices and materials in Turkey are not up to standard. She says there is a lack of inspections both during construction and after these buildings go up. "God does not create people so they can die, it's the contractors who kill people," she says.
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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