More than 100 suspects were detained as Turkey said it would investigate who was responsible for the buildings that collapsed because of last week’s earthquake
Building quality in a country that lies on several seismic fault lines has come into sharp focus in the aftermath of the quake.said 131 suspects had so far been identified as responsible for the collapse of some of the thousands of buildings flattened in the 10 affected provinces.
Erdogan has acknowledged problems, such as the challenge of delivering aid despite damaged transport links, but said the situation had been brought under control.In Syria, the hostilities that have fractured the country during 12 years of civil war are nowEarthquake aid from government-held regions into territory controlled by hardline opposition groups has been held up by approval issues with Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham which controls much of the region, a U.N. spokesperson said.
The foreign minister of U.S. ally the United Arab Emirates met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday in the first high-level visit by an Arab official since the quake.
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