On February 6, a series of devastating earthquakes hit the southeastern provinces of Turkey and the northwestern region of Syria. According to the official figures, over 44000 people lost their lives and over a hundred thousand people are injured, while a few cities and districts went to wreck and ruins with thousands of people are still missing.

In the op-ed, Mashuq Kurt discusses the political aspects and consequences of the natural disaster, arguing that the high number of losses and the level of destruction is a direct result of the twenty years of mismanagement, negligence, corruption and construction amnesties for utalitarian electoral strategies of the Islamist government of Turkey.  

You can read it in French here, and in English here.