Türkiye was already facing an ongoing financial and economic crisis with high inflation, rising borrowing costs and a plunging Turkish lira before the devastating earthquake on 6 February.
I’m a first-generation Australian, born and raised in Sydney, with intermittent trips to Türkiye as a child and stronger memories when I went to complete my first master's degree in 2005.Ankara, in the central Anatolian heartland, is not earthquake-prone. Still, all my classmates started texting each other in the age before smartphones to confirm our suspicions.
My mother tells me that in new modern builds, including where she’s lived for the past two decades, water and electric utilities won’t be connected until the tenant can show proof of earthquake insurance. A family living in an apartment above had apparently taken them to court, but nothing eventuated. When the earthquake hit, the building collapsed. The same murmurings are being heard in the country's southeast.
Ordinary life has stopped. Looking at my social feeds for friends, companies, news and others, everyone has turned their attention to help or contribute in some way. Everyone knows someone who is affected. That is the nature of Turkish society with wide arms, extended families and layers of connections.
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