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Erdogan’s earthquake: how years of bad government made a disaster worse

6/2/2023 • 28 min

Despite vows to tighten the rules after the 1999 quake, cronyism and complacency have undermined Turkish building regulations – at the cost of many thousands of lives. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod Play episode

From the archive: The man in the iron lung
On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the w…
The dark universe: can a scientist battling long Covid unlock the mysterie…
From the archive: Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a f…
How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking
‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus
From the archive: How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket
Sleeping beauties: the evolutionary innovations that wait millions of year…
Sudan’s outsider: how a paramilitary leader fell out with the army and plu…
From the archive: Cod wars to food banks: how a Lancashire fishing town is…
Are coincidences real?
‘The torture’s real. The time I did was real’: the Belfast man waterboarde…
From the archive: Are your tinned tomatoes picked by slave labour?
Will flying ever be green?
How Deborah Levy can change your life
From the archive: My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrou…
Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter o…
The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees
From the archive: The race to create a perfect lie detector, and the dange…
Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery
The Ciskei experiment: a libertarian fantasy in apartheid South Africa
From the archive – The sound of icebergs melting: my journey into the Anta…
‘They robbed me of my children’: Yemen’s war victims tell their stories
The stupidity of AI
From the archive – The girl in the box: the mysterious crime that shocked …
The disabled villain: why sensitivity reading can’t kill off this ugly tro…
Foreign mothers, foreign tongues: ‘In another universe, she could have bee…
From the archive: Why do people hate vegans?
The trials of an Indian witness: how a Muslim man was caught in a legal ni…
‘I know where the bodies are buried’: one woman’s mission to change how th…
From the archive: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight…
Baghdad memories: what the first few months of the US occupation felt like…
Dinner with Proust: how Alzheimer’s caregivers are pulled into their patie…
From the archive: How the MoD’s plan to privatise military housing ended i…
‘One billionaire at a time’: inside the Swiss clinics where the super-rich…
From the archive: The real David Attenborough
No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lionel Messi of c…
From the archive: Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in …
Portrait of a killer: art class in one of Mexico’s most notorious prisons
From the archive: Welcome to the land that no country wants
Can a mass shooter demand a good death? The strange case that tested the l…
From the archive: Snow machines and fleece blankets: inside the ski indust…
Battle of the botanic garden: the horticulture war roiling the Isle of Wig…
From the archive: Can the greatest darts player of all time step away from…
A tragedy pushed to the shadows: the truth about China’s Cultural Revoluti…
From the archive: Where oil rigs go to die
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