Videos have surfaced in Turkish media of the president in 2019 praising a policy that let builders off the hook for skirting safety codes that could have made buildings more quake resistant.
Source: Turkey’s Erdogan boasted of letting builders evade earthquake codes in 2019 : NPR
“And the country’s main association of engineers and architects weighed in with a scathing attack on the practice of amnesties for builders, saying, “Zoning amnesty is an invitation to death.”
So they improved building codes after last big earthquake, but then government/Erdogan? sez, go ahead and build, just ignore some o fthe rules so we can get units built fast.
