Others tell me about doubts regarding the inspection mechanisms and point out clear conflicts of interest. Another thread perhaps at another time.
Reports say the building was a beneficiary of the recent Planning Laws Amnesty. An amnesty that makes a lot of money for the state.
So when it collapsed and 21 people died, the entire system came under a microscope. Except it didn’t because the news media media ban hit.
So let’s talk about it because that ban is bullshit.
The names are probably awful people but someone else would have done the same thing.
But the amnesty will ensure that those collapses will continue for more decades because terrible buildings will now have official documentation.
This is a city (Istanbul) that sits on a major fault line. An amnesty of this kind implies a blatant disregard for human safety that borders on the sociopathic.
The President can swear and cuss as much as he likes but this is his system (even if he inherited it). He needs real estate like you need to breathe.
That collapse could have happened to all of us.
We should be debating it with furious passion.