Videos show Turkey's Erdogan boasted letting builders avoid earthquake codes
At first I thought the headline was click-bait, but it's actually accurate.<p>The videos really, truly show Erdogan repeatedly <i>boasting</i> about giving "amnesty" to private builders to ignore regulatory codes in order to "solve" Turkey's housing shortage. It appears that a majority of the thousands of buildings that crumbled into dust when the earthquake struck were constructed under such "amnesty."<p>In hindsight, Erdogan looks like a naive moron, and the private builders who put innocent lives at risk to maximize short-term profit look like movie villains.