The death toll has now reached 30,000, making the quakes the most lethal in the country’s modern history
quake hit, the apartment block in Osmaniye, a city in southern Turkey, where Halise Sen had once lived collapsed like a house of cards, burying her former neighbours under nine floors of concrete. Mrs Sen, the head of the local chamber of architects, looks over the wreckage. “There’s no reinforced steel here,” she says, “so the concrete lost its strength and the columns collapsed, along with the floors, as soon as the ground started to shake.
But the rescue effort increasingly resembles a mass exhumation. Tens of thousands of people are still thought to be buried under the wreckage. In Kahramanmaras, a city of more than 500,000, smoke from fires that broke out as a result of the quake envelops mounds of rubble that stretch for entire city blocks. The same smoke, accompanied by the thickening stench of death, covers Adiyaman, more than 100km to the east.
The biggest cause of deaths, however, may have been shoddy building standards, corruption and bad policymaking. All are part of Turkey’s economic model, which is powered by construction and rent-seeking. The government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president,, analysts say. But so do its predecessors, as well as municipalities , developers and planners. “This is a perfect crime,” says Murat Guvenc, an urban planner and academic. “Everybody has their finger in the pie.
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