‘Where’s the aid?’ Families left to bury own dead as Turkey struggles to cope

Source:Financial Times Date:10Feb2023

Laura Pitel does an excellent job of getting to the bottom of the  problem:  The state withered under Erdogan.
https://www.ft.com/content/e92eadda-e19a-4211-8e1f-b50548a95757?shareType=nongift

Yet in Adıyaman, experienced relief workers were stunned by the lack of co-ordination. A trained search and rescue volunteer from Istanbul said that, when he arrived in the city on Monday, 14 hours after the quake, he sought guidance from Afad on where to go first — and was met with a shrug. “How’s that possible?” he said with disbelief. A municipal worker from another Turkish province who led the delivery of 10 diggers said the vehicles had waited on the back of a truck for three hours because it was unclear what to do with them. The man, who like the rescue worker asked not to be named, said: “In those three hours, how many lives have been could be saved? The local government here is very weak and disorganised.”