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2020/10/31 24 hour corner
【2020. 10. 31 Turkey】
Man-made disasters suspended due to natural disasters: 7.0 Aegean earthquake, condolences and tense reconciliation between Turkey and Greece
“Although there are many complex plots in the nation’s history, the ‘geographic connection’ still reminds them that we must share the same suffering.” Smyrna (Izmir), the third largest city in Turkey-Eastern Mediterranean, and around the Greek island of Samos (Samos) – -A 7.0 earthquake occurred in the Aegean Sea at 2:51 pm on the 30th. early Saturday morning, a total of 23 people are known to have died and at least 804 were injured. In the disaster zone headed by Izmir, Turkey, more than 20 buildings and apartments collapsed. Therefore, the exact number of missing, buried and trapped people is still unknown. .
At present, Turkey has entered a state of national mobilization for disaster relief. It was originally actively deploying troops. Greece, which was “intimidating” with its former enemy Turkey over Mediterranean sovereignty, also suffered casualties due to the country’s simultaneous interpretation, with Greek Prime Minister Mizotaski coming first. Time has also softened his posture. In opposition to Turkish President Edoğan, who were still threatening each other a few days ago, “ask for your condolences … and support the citizens affected by the disaster.”
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Turkey, located at the junction of the Eurasian plates, has been threatened by destruction from “great earthquakes” from time to time in history; For example, on August 17, 1999, the “Izmit earthquake” also on the west coast of Anatolia caused 1 7,000 people died and triggered an offshore tsunami 2.5 meters high. Because of this, Turkey, which has years of experience in earthquake disasters and accumulates professional search and rescue preparations, was the first to be in the 921 earthquake in Taiwan later that year. A search and rescue team was dispatched to Taiwan to help.
According to the detection report of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the strong Aegean earthquake on the afternoon of the 30th occurred off the coast of Izmir. It was an “extremely shallow earthquake” with a depth of only 13 miles and easy to cause large-scale damage. The “disaster-affected videos” circulated on social media also showed that the vertical shaking after the start of the earthquake quickly brought disaster to coastal cities. In the southwest of the province of Ismir and the island of Samos in Greece, “small areas” appeared. The attack by the “tsunami”, the film of seawater rushing into residential areas and ports, is truly appalling, but apart from the economic losses, no one has been reported as a victim of the tsunami.
At 4 am on October 31, a strong earthquake in the Aegean is known to have caused 21 people in Turkey and 2 people in Greece, with a total of 23 deaths; a total of 804 people were injured. Fortunately, this major earthquake did not cause a widespread housing collapse. Although both Turkey and Greece suffered severe economic losses, only 17 buildings were reported that “may be trapped” and 9 of them are still in the disaster area. In the continuous excavation and rescue.
“The sky is shaking and it’s terrifying! I thought it was the end of the world? Due to the strong shaking from the earthquake … as if it lasted 10 minutes, the impact seemed to never end.”
Gokhan Kan, a 32-year-old Turkish survivor, told AFP. After the strong earthquake, more than 300 aftershocks were continuously detected in Turkey, 27 of which exceeded intensity 4. Fortunately, the area affected by the disaster was located on the western coast of Turkey. The road system and transportation mechanism were not seriously damaged. Therefore, the disaster relief forces of Istanbul, the largest city in the country, and the firefighting reinforcements of several districts, in just a few hours It can mobilize more than 4,000 police and consumer troops and a Hundreds of heavy machinery to rush to the disaster area to help.
During the search and rescue process, the Turkish search and rescue team rescued a couple of teenagers (Sister Buse Ozisik and younger brother Gunay) from under the rubble in the early morning of the 31st, almost 12 hours after the earthquake. For a time, the Turkish people who watched the live broadcast of the relief all night were also inspired by this.
But at the same time, on social media and political talk shows, sporadic anger against “builders are more corrupt” began to emerge. Although the relevant discussions are not yet on general issues, they come from two main observation points from the private sector: (1) the evacuation of dangerous buildings in hospitals in the disaster area; (2) most of the collapsed buildings are base housing complexes.
After the earthquake, hospitals in the Ismir disaster area also began “disaster prevention and response” to prevent aftershocks from jeopardizing hospital security, transferring large numbers of hospitalized patients and patients who they were not in critical condition outside the room for temporary shelter. However, this phenomenon has caused public opinion to question: “If the newly constructed hospital building does not trust the resistance to earthquakes … How can the quality of life of ordinary people be guaranteed? they cannot guarantee themselves that they will face large-scale disasters. How should this be admitted? “
“The higher the poverty level, the closer to you the lethality of the earthquake will be!” Said Dr. Övgun Ahmet Ercan, an urban planning policy expert from Turkey who once represented the right wing of a party secular in politics, on the news of Turkey’s “FOX Tuyu Channel”. Such criticisms on the live stream:
“Every time the corpses unearthed in an earthquake are poor, ordinary people and rich people cannot die! Did I make a mistake? How did you see the corpses of celebrities, rich and powerful unearthed during an earthquake? The poor have died. This It is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster. What we find is poverty and class injustice. “
Although Dr. Ercon’s speech seemed out of place at the time of disaster relief, and even some headwinds, the structural ills he presented were chronic diseases in Turkey. Among them, the short-term vision is related to the “hasty reconstruction” of Turkey after several strong earthquakes. Serious cases of illegal and unskilled construction are related; the longer-term and more difficult situation may also refer to Turkish politics. -Especially the regime of President Edogan -for years through territorial disputes to develop the structural problems of “political and commercial speculation in land and the economy.”
But in addition to the reports of disasters. The Aegean earthquake also brought an unexpected “diplomatic truce”, because Greece, which was originally “moving troops to intimidate each other” about the sovereignty of the eastern Mediterranean with Turkey, was also affected by the disaster in its own country, Samos. Disaster relief mobilization launched. Therefore, the original situation of both sides at war was temporarily suspended due to the sudden onslaught of natural disasters, and even conversely entered the warmth and encouragement stage.
“I just called Turkish President Edogan and expressed the tragic condolences of the Greek people and government for the earthquake disaster and loss of life in both countries. No matter how many differences there are between our two countries, the key is Every moment , each other’s people should support each other and stay together, “said Greek Prime Minister Mizotaski.
“Thank you Prime Minister. On my behalf and on behalf of all the Turkish people, I would like to express my deepest condolences to Greece. Like Greece, Turkey is ready to provide all assistance at any time to help the Greek people. to heal their wounds. ” President Edogan replied: “In difficult times, Turkey and Greece can always come together, because there are always things in life that are more important than differences.”
According to Reuters, while Turkey and Greece’s “comfort speeches” inevitably have narrative elements, the relationship between NATO allies and Turkey is deepening, and even now that swords are drawn to divide, the earthquake reconciliation may also be The two sides cushion the best political degradations, because in the 1999 Izmit earthquake, Turkish officials and citizens also thanked Greece, which proactively extended a hand. The once tense diplomatic situation between the two countries has also started for several years. “Slight reconciliation period”.
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