Turkey's Earthquake Response Is as Political as the Conditions That Increased the Devastation

When the first earthquake, 7.8 in magnitude, struck just outside Gaziantep on Monday morning, Gürkan Arpaci considered himself lucky.About eighty miles away, in Elbistan, the small Turkish town where Arpaci was born and lives, only three or four buildings had collapsed and there didn't seem to be too many casualties.

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