Erdoğan makes U-turn on Turkey’s construction amnesty
The construction and registration of buildings that do not meet licence and zoning regulations will be considered a violation of ...
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Parliamentary motion to investigate consequences of building amnesties rejected by Turkey’s ruling party
As the official death toll from the February earthquakes that devastated southern and southeastern Turkey rose to 50,399, the ruling ...
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Erdoğan’s repentance?
Ertuğrul Kürkçü The impudence of those who cowered down under the unbelievable gravity of the urban crimes they’d committed, trying ...
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HDP to propose new earthquake law after death toll reaches 40,000 in Turkey
The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is preparing to introduce a law proposal on earthquakes to the Turkish National Assembly ...
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CNN: History repeats itself in Turkey, with no lessons learnt
20 years of negligence by Turkish authorities and a failure to learn from history have made the scale of destruction ...
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Disaster Management as Pacification: The Politics of Emergency in Erdoğan’s Turkey
Harun Ercan While the two earthquakes that struck Turkey, Syria, and Kurdistan lasted only two minutes, the dynamics that created ...
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Deadliness of Turkey’s quakes lies in bad policymaking, corruption – The Economist
Bad policy and mass corruption in the Turkish construction industry are covered in the international media as the main reason ...
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HDP lawmaker applauded years later for resisting construction amnesty in 2018
Public resentment against a series of construction amnesties brought in by the Turkish government in 2018 generally blamed for the ...
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