But at least one pollster, Can Selcuki from Istanbul Economics Research, says that the government’s earthquake response has done little to sway voters. Kılıçdaroğlu may be boosted further by the late withdrawal from the race of a minor candidate, Muharrem Ince. Polls give the opposition coalition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu a slight national lead over Erdogan (earthquake zone polling data is hard to come by). Yet in the Erdogan strongholds that pepper the earthquake zone of southeast Turkey, those criticisms may have largely fallen on deaf ears. We were talking together constantly,” says Bedi. “For the first 48 hours under the rubble, my daughter Talya was alive. Just over 72 hours later, he and the Italian rescue team, Vigili del Fuoco, rescued Bedi and recovered the lifeless bodies of his wife and two daughters. The state’s emergency workers were all but absent in many parts of the disaster area during the first few days that followed.įor three days, Bedi’s relative – Caner Değirmenci – sledgehammered a path to the destroyed family home in Hatay. The earthquake claimed more than 50,000 lives in Turkey and neighboring Syria, and displaced more than 6 million people. Lorenz Huber/CNNįor his tragedy, Bedi blames the government and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is battling for a third term, buffeted by economic headwinds and criticism that the impact of the February 6 earthquake was made worse by lax building controls and a shambolic rescue effort. He blames President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his tragedy. He lost his wife and two daughters in the quake. Bedi Degirmenci, 36, was stuck under the rubble for three days.
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