Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake
by egeozcan on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @04:52PM
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Amazing summary, thank you!
Some additions:
Erdoğan also gained immensely from the economic measures taken after the 1999 earthquake and the following economic depression. He eventually rolled back a significant portion of them, and further wrecked the economy by lowering interests in the face of inflation, and multiple times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkyudz4w5Gc
> the earthquake tax collected wasn't used to be ready for the next quake. This was something widely known and criticized
It was openly admitted by a minister that it was spent on building roads. A lot of those roads have now giant cracks on them, because of the earthquake.
> ministers are giving ridiculous speeches about how everything is under control
One even said that the rescue operations are going slowly to make sure people under the rubble aren't crushed.
Some additions:
Erdoğan also gained immensely from the economic measures taken after the 1999 earthquake and the following economic depression. He eventually rolled back a significant portion of them, and further wrecked the economy by lowering interests in the face of inflation, and multiple times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkyudz4w5Gc
> the earthquake tax collected wasn't used to be ready for the next quake. This was something widely known and criticized
It was openly admitted by a minister that it was spent on building roads. A lot of those roads have now giant cracks on them, because of the earthquake.
> ministers are giving ridiculous speeches about how everything is under control
One even said that the rescue operations are going slowly to make sure people under the rubble aren't crushed.