Turkey earthquake

[GreyGhost]

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Condolences to those that lost loved ones.

When did it start to be called Turkiye? Is that similar to Deutschland vs Germany?

No wonder so much collapsed, the surface slipped meters. This crack is 200 km long. Not many buildings are happy with a sudden shunt to the side regardless of construction.

 

[Mad Mike]

Sound like there is a lot of corruption in Turkeyz building trades. Apparently they gave builfong codes rivalling California's. Many modern builds that were engineered to stand failed due to to shoddy workmanship and compliance eith standards.

 

[Brian P]

Turkiye (with two dots over the "u" which my English-language keyboard doesn't have) is the official native-language spelling. Seems that in 2021 they started pushing for that spelling to be made official internationally, and last year the United Nations accepted this request.

Nothing wrong with harmonising the spelling and pronounciation internationally. Deutschland would really throw English-speakers for a loop. Or how about Suomi.

Other countries have also changed their names over the years. Sri Lanka used to be named Ceylon, for example.

 

[Brian P]

Internet rabbit-hole. Sri Lanka to Czech Republic: 10 countries that have changed their names

 

[Priller]

Internet rabbit-hole. Sri Lanka to Czech Republic: 10 countries that have changed their names

Interesting link. I'd wondered about the Czechia one, as I'd seen that on maps recently. Doing away with colonial pasts seems to be a pattern, including the renaming (or re-renaming) of the larger cities in India.

As for Turkey/Turkiye, I'm sure a lot has to do with the former spelling being a homonym of a fairly comedic flightless bird that's best known for holiday dining and is also used as a mild insult.

The death toll from the earthquake is staggering. Increasing population density has moved people into multi-storey concrete buildings, which are mostly awful at handling earthquakes even when well-built. The fact that it happened at 4 am when almost everyone was in bed made it exponentially worse...

 

[mimico_polak]

Corruption in Turkiye is rampant and very open in the companies that build their civil works. It’s all about who you’re buddies with and which way the political will goes that year.

Resurfaced videos from 2019 shows Turkish president bragging about builders skirting earthquake construction codes in areas now turned to rubble

Videos have surfaced of Erdoğan on the campaign trail in 2019 boasting about a policy that allowed buildings to skirt earthquake protections.

news.yahoo.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/10yw25f

I’m in tunnelling and recently all tunnel jobs stopped in Istanbul simply because the govt wanted to hand the jobs to someone else.

Tunnel stops, Company A leaves, Company B ‘bids’, and B starts the work where A left it.

Same workers…different owners.

My buddys home town is near the epicentre, but his entire family is alive but their house is gone. They’re all living with relatives so there’s some good news.

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