On February 6, a series of devastating earthquakes hit the southeastern provinces of Turkey and the northwestern region of Syria. According to the official figures, over 44000 people lost their lives and over a hundred thousand people are injured, while a few cities and districts went to wreck and ruins with thousands of people are still missing.
In the op-ed, Mashuq Kurt discusses the political aspects and consequences of the natural disaster, arguing that the high number of losses and the level of destruction is a direct result of the twenty years of mismanagement, negligence, corruption and construction amnesties for utalitarian electoral strategies of the Islamist government of Turkey.
