Turkey quake raises housing quality questions

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Uploaded by on Oct 25, 2011

Questions are being raised about the quality of buildings which collapsed following this week's devastating earthquake in Van province in eastern Turkey.

With some structures still crumbling and no official word on when rebuilding can begin, Turkish authorities are likely to be quizzed over why they have failed to tighten up construction regulations in a region of the world so prone to earthquakes.

Al Jazeera's Anita McNaught reports from Ercis.

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  • @renho38

    Thnx ,our japan friends.We Turks love u God bless Japan & Turkey

  • they are kurdish... not turkish... they dont even look like turks ... they only live in turkey where they are cnnected to the border of iraq.. they mind as well l ive there....

  • 1:14 justin bieber

  • We are praying for Turkey from Japan.

  • Allah Akbar???

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