Amazing summary, thank you! Some additions: Erdoğan also gained immensely from the economic measures taken after the 1999 earthquake and the following economi

Amazing summary, thank you! Some additions: Erdoğan also gained immensely from the economic measures taken after the 1999 earthquake and the following economic depression. He eventually rolled back a significant portion of them, and further wrecked the economy by lowering interests in the face of inflation, and multiple times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkyudz4w5Gc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkyudz4w5Gc > the earthquake tax collected wasn't used to be ready for the next quake. This was something widely known and criticized It was openly admitted by a minister that it was spent on building roads. A lot of those roads have now giant cracks on them, because of the earthquake. > ministers are giving ridiculous speeches about how everything is under control One even said that the rescue operations are going slowly to make sure people under the rubble aren't crushed.