Turkey: "must not burden the JCs"

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Notice how many of the collapsed buildings in Turkey are concrete, not structural steel, and how little rebar is in the concrete?

Erdoğan has been giving a free pass to builders that build substandard buildings. So why should anyone bear the “burden” of complying with building codes? Compliance only hurts profits, as there is no downside to cheating.

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Corruption and dead bodies. People literally fully supporting it anywhere including here all day long.

Childish minds. Trusted management?

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Since the FT link wants you to subscribe to read the article, here is one from the AP.

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@steve203 : [quote=“steve203, post:1, topic:88443”]
Erdoğan has been giving a free pass to builders that build substandard buildings.
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Not exactly.

  1. I hope they arrest the corrupt inspectors who probably took bribes to let the contractors get away with building substandard structures.

  2. Arrests are one thing. Punishment is another. We’ll see what happens.

Wendy

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Remember the immigration enforcement theater conducted in the US several years ago? A couple of Swift plants were raided, and scores of illegals hauled away. Did that change anything?

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Erdoğan has been giving a free pass to builders that build substandard buildings. So why should anyone bear the “burden” of complying with building codes?

Worse, everyone has been paying an earthquake tax for decades and noone really knows where that money went. Certainly not into safer buildings:

Following the 1999 quake, homeowners have been paying what’s called essentially an earthquake tax since the early 2000s — [a fund to essentially have some money on the side to take the edge off the worst when it comes]. That was made permanent, and everybody pays that every year. Today, that money should have amassed to somewhere in the tens of billions of US dollars. And people are saying, “Well, where the hell is that money?” Erdogan was actually asked this in 2020.

And he basically says: That money was spent where it needed to be spent. [I] don’t feel the need to explain myself to anybody any further.

The money seems to have gone toward what, we don’t quite know, because Turkey’s government spending reports have been censored since 2012.

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