Natural Disaster and Crisis Management

Izmir Quake Exposes Deadly Cost of Shoddy Construction in Turkey

Only Turkey saw a death toll of more than 100, while other countries hit by larger quakes in 2020 did not have any casualties.

Abdullah Ayasun
4 min readNov 4, 2020

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(Photo Credit: Reuters)

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Abdullah Ayasun

Boston-based journalist and writer. Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. On art, culture, politics and everything in between. X: @abyasun