Erdogan’s night sleep | RTL News

I had a recent fight with a friend (“You always say tactless things!”, “You got hit too fast!”) and it kept me up all night. I suspect the average person still feels something gnawing when one or both parties have to apologize and those apologies haven’t been said yet.

No, then someone like Erdogan. The ease with which the Turkish president moves around his injured country gives me the impression that the man sleeps well at night. Close your eyes and go. With a serious face, but his head held high, he entered a shelter in the hard-hit Kahramanmaras last week. Kiss people, shake hands, pat on the shoulder, hello people, here is your understanding president. And so I’ve been wondering all along, how can you embrace people who are suffering from an earthquake that you could have done with damage control?

I had to think a song singer Pink once dida tiny little acoustic song, but with a heavy indictment against then US President George W. Bush:

Dear Mr. President

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?

How to dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?

How to walk with your head held high?

The painful facts are increasingly seeping through Turkey’s experts and connoisseurs. Turkish-Dutch historian Zihni Özdil made a stark comparison: Chile, which has invested heavily in earthquake-resistant buildings, was hit in 2014 by an earthquake measuring 8.2 on the Richter scale. : six dead. Turkey and Syria, hit by an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale: tens of thousands dead.

Just before the 2018 elections, Erdogan ignored strict regulations for building earthquake-proof buildings to win souls. Because without these regulations, construction could be done faster and cheaper. That’s apparently what the lust for power does: it obscures what it’s really all about when you have to run a country.

Because Erdogan knew how sensitive his country is to earthquakes. In 1999, more than 17,000 people died around Izmit. A real seismic tax was then introduced to prepare the country for all future earthquakes. Where did this money go? Why were geologists’ warnings not heeded?

After these critical questions, Twitter was recently temporarily blocked by the Turkish government. Pro-government media mainly focus on the unity that has emerged in the country. The Turkish disguise machine is running at full speed.

In the meantime, I can see how Erdogan brushes his teeth every night, washes his face. Night cream on, pajamas on, then to bed. Maybe just read a book, send an app, sigh it’s going to be an excruciatingly short night – but get a few hours sleep. While the rest of his country cries.