TheFifthNice t1_jadx6t3 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 7:08 PM

Reply to comment by Equal-Warning-8612 in Turkey widens probe into building collapses as quake toll exceeds 50,000 by Pluto-NO

They actually have pretty good building codes and standards after the big earthquake in the 90s. The issue is that they have terrible enforcement and have had a series of construction violation amnesties, which were politically very popular.

ProximaC t1_jaep19c wrote on February 28, 2023 at 10:06 PM

If you have good laws, but allow them to be circumvented, they're not good laws, they're just suggestions.