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¿Porque no los dos?
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.