Turkish radio program producer Ahmet Toprak, based out of San Jose, says he believes the widespread damage is from buildings not being built up to code. Toprak says that despite repeated warnings from experts that a large earthquake was in Turkey's future, calls for action were ignored.
Bay Area Turkish organizations prepare to send aid in wake of deadly Turkey, Syria earthquake that killed thousands.Members of Turkish organizations based in the Bay Area went to bed Sunday night with a feeling of panic, knowing their families and friends overseas were experiencing the worst-case scenario.
"My immediate family is OK, but everyone knows someone who they haven't heard from or they know of someone's family missing. So these are the times when we all need to be together, help each other and do as much as we can," Basak Altan, co-founder of the Bay Area Turkish Society said."A lot of the buildings that have been leveled are new buildings, government buildings, these are buildings that are municipality buildings, hospitals that have been built," Altan said.
"Buildings are usually tall these days, condominium buildings are 10 to 15 stories tall and some of them are unfortunately not made to the code, built to the code and so they collapsed right away, pancaked," Toprak said.
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