{"id":25883,"date":"2023-02-15T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=25883"},"modified":"2023-02-15T23:13:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T04:13:01","slug":"turkeys-erdogan-boasted-of-letting-builders-evade-earthquake-codes-in-2019-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=25883","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s Erdogan boasted of letting builders evade earthquake codes in 2019 : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/gettyimages-1247068368_custom-d7ebd29aa4a42b0be3464d61fe917841aebba54c-s1100-c50.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"213\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/02\/13\/1156512284\/turkey-earthquake-erdogan-building-safety\">Turkey&#8217;s Erdogan boasted of letting builders evade earthquake codes in 2019 : NPR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;And the country&#8217;s main association of engineers and architects weighed in with a scathing attack on the practice of amnesties for builders, saying, &#8220;Zoning amnesty is an invitation to death.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videos have surfaced in Turkish media of the president in 2019 praising&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1216,576,455],"class_list":["post-25883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-earthquake","tag-jfc","tag-turkey","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}