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Are they going for marital law round 2? Election Boogaloo?
Won't this impact rescue attempts? We are rapidly approaching the 72 hour mark where survival odds plummet. Now is when rescues need to be going unimpeded. >

Yes, but with authoritarian governments it's a price worth paying to maintain power. >

Erdogan is starting to feel the heat. >

Of course.  Erdogan is fearing for his life.  50,000 dead means an awful lot of families with a score to settle. >

Where are you getting the 50,000 estimate? I've seen it's up to 12,000 at the moment per the NYTimes. >

I believe within 24 hours there was a posting from someone living there who predicted it would be 45,000 dead, so I rounded up.   BBC is saying minimum 20,000 now.....I'm going to stick to this number, actually I thinks 50-100,000 dead is likely.
You can castigate me later if I'm wrong.  remind me! 10 days. >

I can't tell from the story if this is Erdoğan being an asshole or Musk being an asshole. >

¿Porque no los dos? >

Por qué*