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Meanwhile, in Canada.. emergency act declared over people honking horns.
Unfortunately they will be looking at 20,000 if not significantly more. >

Yeah we are only a little over 36 hours from the start of the earthquake. Death toll usually spikes after the 72 hours mark. >

Winter temperatures as well are making this extra terrible :( >

Yeah this is going to be really bad. I've heard its pretty wet in the region currently as well. >

At the risk of sounding ignorant, why is the death toll so huge? Poor building standards? I don’t know much about Turkey. Edit: I appreciate all the helpful responses! >

Poor building standards, to be more precise not enough "quality control". There was not enough preparation. >

Turk here. It is 100% corruption. >

Are you sure that's not the rate at which there's reason to remember the name? >

Does anyone know if the military has arrived at the area to aid yet? Last I heard Erdoğan was only going to send a few thousand troops and they hadn't gone there yet. >

Turkish military entered my home city (Marash) about 20 hours ago (4-5 am local time) >

Fuck me 5000 dead.
That's more then the death toll on 911.
That's a lot of heart ace. >

The worst part is it could very well be 10x worse than we know now. >

More than 11000 buildings reported completely collapsed and countless others damaged beyond repair so far. It’s been 48 hours since the first earthquake hit and there are entire neighborhoods and villages that the rescue teams haven’t even been able to set foot on yet. Lack of resources and coordination is unbelievable. So Erdogan&Co went on tv yesterday and openly threatened people who dared speak against his dictatorship. His minister said those who donate to organizations(there are couple of really good ones) other than Erdogan’s rescue team are provocateurs. Turkey is beyond fucked. >

I guess it's a good time to bring up Turkey changed it's name to Türkiye and the US State Department is now using it. >

So would you say Türkiyish leader? >

Turkish and Turkiye, they can be different. Kinda like The Philippines and Filipinos >

Why isn’t this bigger news? They need some serious help >

Even after all the nonsense they are trying to pull with NATO, everyone is here to help. Maybe this will get their heads out of their asses. >

One has nothing to do with the other, though. NATO is a military defense alliance. >

Yes, they are playing politics with the safety of two countries, those two countries that are there for them in a time of need despite their nonsense. 
If anything, I'd argue it's more severe what turkey is doing as a military threat causes more damage, more frequently >

Are you so ignorant that you are discounting what Russia is doing in Ukraine can easily happen to non-nato countries due to turkey fucking around? OR are you purposefully blind.
The earthquake is a horrific one-off event. War is fucking daily my guy,
No one here is discounting or diminishing how horrific what's going on in turkey is, I am simply providing a point of comparison that it is nothing compared to a war that could be easily deterred.
Additionally, I am saying that these countries aren't being petty like Turkey, they see Turkey is in need and are helping, period. No political bullshit. >

It would be a shame if other countries were to capitalize on this crisis for their own political gains. >

It would be a shame if Erdogan used this crisis to capitalize on his own political gain.