Entire cities flattened as high-rises, put up on the cheap with virtually no regard for safety, or via paid regulation ‘amnesties’, simply pancaked. At least 30,000 now dead, but the UN expects that figure to double at least, with perhaps up to 100,000 more bodies still lying underneath the rubble.
Volunteers are still working around the clock to find survivors, but everyone agrees that it is probably too late. Now, every 15 minutes when they pause to listen, there is only silence. Across the border in Syria, almost no relief efforts whatsoever have been possible.
A furious backlash might bring down the Erdogan regime in Turkey. What most deserves blame though is the system behind the corruption: capitalism and its profit motive.