The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, promised to act firmly against the looters. Erdogan has been criticized by the opposition for failing to foresee disasters of this magnitude and for squandering state funds. The Turkish government, which was beset by a economic crisis and one skyrocketing inflation before the earthquake, faces parliamentary elections and presidential in May.
The death toll from Monday’s earthquakes in Turkey and Syria was around 39.000 personas, with more than 92,600 injured. Some 148,000 people have been evicted from the ten affected provinces and another 233,000 work in rescue efforts with more than 12,000 vehicles and machinery.
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He Turkish Ministry of Justice announced that offices of Investigation of Earthquake Crimes. Those agencies will identify contractors and others responsible for construction work, gather evidence, instruct experts such as architects, geologists and engineers, and check building and occupancy permits. The rescuers, including teams from other countries, continued to search through the rubble in the hope of finding more people who could challenge the dwindling odds of survival. were used thermal chambers to search among the piles of concrete and metal while the rescuers called for silence to hear the voices of the trapped people.
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