Erdogan’s house of cards has collapsed with the earthquake. There is already a rush to find scapegoats as well as the arrests of looters.
Robert Ellis
(International Advisor at the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS) in Athens)
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In Turkey, every natural and unnatural disaster is usually accompanied by a hunt for scapegoats so that those responsible escape retribution. The major earthquakes that struck the East Anatolian Fault Zone and the aftershocks are no exception.
There have been a number of serious rail accidents in Turkey and in 2004, two years after the AKP government came to power, a new high-speed train from Ankara to Istanbul derailed, killing 36 people. However, experts had warned against launching the prestige project prematurely before the rail infrastructure had been modernized.... Read more