Earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale with a magnitude of 6her February – the worst earthquake to hit Turkey since 1939 – rocked the election landscape in the neighboring country months before the dual (parliamentary and presidential) elections Polls 14her Maybeinflicting a blow to Erdogan’s side, which she clearly did not expect, but could not underestimate.
After all, how to “smooth” them communicatively? over 45,000 dead and them property damage about 35 billion dollars; OUR Erdogan he tried, but it didn’t work. “It’s impossible to be prepared for such a disaster“, he declared in the first 24 hours after the earthquake, before he began to change his tune along the way recognition of the inadequacy of the reaction of the state and finally apologizing February 27, about three weeks after Enceladus hit.
Suddenly, after two decades in power, the 69-year-old Recep Tayyip Erdogan — who, while still in opposition, politically benefited from the 1999 earthquake — apologized for:
- delays in Turkish relief operations for the millions affected by the earthquake,
- defective and “fragile” development of the southeast areas,
- special construction tasks of past years,
- pro-presidential “paralyzing” changes that he and his entourage have made to the structure of the state/power apparatus in recent years, etc.
Source: Kathimerini
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