In 1985, Mexico’s capital, Mexico City was shaken by an earthquake of 8.0 magnitude. More than 10,000 people lost their lives.

Mexico drew lessons from this…

37 years later, on 22 September 2022, another earthquake with a 7.4 magnitude struck, but this time only two people lost their lives, 10 were injured…

200 buildings were damaged by the considerable tremor…

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In the 7.8 magnitude Erzincan Earthquake of 1939, 32,968 people lost their lives, and more than 100,000 people were injured.

116,720 buildings were destroyed.

The loss of life in the 2023 Kahramanmaras Earthquake has already exceeded Erzincan considerably.

Unlike Mexico, Turkey was even more vulnerable to the earthquake 84 years later…

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Who is the serial killer who did not take any precautions for an earthquake and opened the way for the massacre?

Of course, it is the bloody order of “politics-contractors-bureaucrats.”

This is why the system keeps producing contractors, who pop up like mushrooms…

The total number of contractors in the European Union, which was 27 members, is 60,000…

The number of contractors in Turkey is 330,000… Nearly six times the amount in the EU…

In Germany, which is on the same scale as Turkey, there are 3800 contractors…

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I have emphasized this before; the matter about the “financing of politics” is never discussed here because of the pressure coming from the political establishment…

Contractors finance politics in Turkey.

And the government assigns public contracts to supporting contractors…

The trio of “politics-contractors-bureaucrats” is a consequence of this relationship…

The Public Contract Law that passed in 2002 has been changed 197 times to suit pro-government contractors for this reason.

The law has been violated every time in order to assign public contracts to pro-government contractors.

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Areas that had been declared “risky areas” by the Council of Ministers were reassigned as no-risk areas with a quick political decision and given over to contractors. People live in areas that have been opened for construction as if there is no risk of great loss of life, just to allow a killing for the contractors…

If it wasn’t for the rentier madness of the “politics-contractors-bureaucrats” triangle, this massacre would not have happened, our people would not have died, and this earthquake would not have turned into such a calamity.

And there is proof for this…

In Adiyaman, which was destroyed by the earthquake, it could not damage two buildings.

One of them is the Cendere Bridge, built by Roman Emperor Septimius 1,800 years ago…

The other is the Kommagene Cultural Center, where construction started in 2020; it was inaugurated in September 2022…

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The Kommagene Cultural Center was built by the Ministry of Industry and Technology with EU funds, based on EU codes.

The earthquake did not cause the slightest damage in that building.

Both Europeans and Turks knew that the building built according to EU codes would not collapse. Since the EU was more concerned about the people here than the administration here, it had that building built according to its own code.

Why did you change the Contract Law aimed at protecting people that was in accordance with EU criteria 197 times?

Why did you not care that each one of those changes would cause people to die?

Why did you have all these people killed for money?

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It is not the first time Turkey is learning these truths.

The headline of the Son Posta Newspaper dated 4 January 1940, following the 1939 Erzincan Earthquake was, “Corrupt construction practices caused the great scope of the disaster; the matter is being investigated.”

The truth was known since then.

84 years later, today, politicians and bureaucrats responsible for an unprecedented disaster who tried to hide the corrupt system that caused the massacre are being protected, while contractors are being arrested…

Why don’t you ask those contractors who gave them the permission to build those buildings?

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The AKP leader who has been in power for 21 years had declared the new century of the Republic as “Turkey’s century.”

They wrote “Turkey’s century” all over the place…

The “New Century” lie of the administration that turned a veterinarian into a dean of law school, a religious scholar into a school of architecture dean, an archer into an AFAD (Disaster and Emergency Management) administrator, and a wrestler into a banker was buried under the rubble of the Maras earthquake.

The propaganda and psychological operation that they hoped would hide this system that does not hesitate to kill for money has ended before it was launched…

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We should ask those who desperately chatter “the constitution is not a holy verse” as they think about violating the constitution: Is killing people for money found in the holy verses that you stubbornly maintain this system?

Do you ever think of anything other than money and power?

If you are so interested in religious verses, why don’t you read the ones about “rightful due”?

Do you only think of “verses” when you want to violate the constitution?