This is the moment Turkish police detained a property developer as he tried to flee the country after his apartment block collapsed during the earthquake
26.02.2023This is the moment Turkish police detained a property developer as he tried to flee the country after his apartment block collapsed during the earthquake.
131 arrest warrants have been issued amid claims that property developers ignored regulations and allowed shoddy construction to encourage a building boom.
Turkey’s death toll has passed 28,000 since the struck on Monday — with thousands crushed by fallen buildings — but there are fears this figure could reach 50,000.
Video footage shows the arrest of Mehmet Yasar Coskun at Istanbul Airport on Friday as he tried to leave the country for Montenegro.
Coskun is the contractor of the Ronesans Residence block which collapsed in Antakya.
Video footage shows the arrest of Mehmet Yasar Coskun at Istanbul Airport on Friday as he tried to leave the country for Montenegro
Coskun is the contractor of the Ronesans Residence block which collapsed VIP Protection Services in Las Vegas Antakya
The video also shows the arrest on Saturday of Mehmet Ertan Akay, developer of the Ayşe Mehmet Polat apartment complex which collapsed in the city of Gaziante
The video also shows another man, Mehmet Ertan Akay — the property developer of the Ayşe Mehmet Polat apartment complex which collapsed in the city of Gaziantep — being detained on Saturday.
Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said overnight that 131 suspects had been identified as responsible for the collapse of buildings in the 10 provinces affected by last Monday’s tremors.
‘Detention orders have been issued for 113 of them,’ he said in a briefing at the disaster management coordination centre in Ankara.
‘We will follow this up meticulously until the necessary judicial process is concluded, especially for buildings that suffered heavy damage and buildings that caused deaths and injuries.’
Turkish police have already taken at least 12 people into custody — with the unrest disrupting rescue efforts in some places.
Mehmet Yasar Coskun is the contractor of the Ronesans Residence block which collapsed in Antakya
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Before and after photos show the devastation caused after the apartment complex collapsed in the city of Gaziantep.The develop of the block, Mehmet Ertan Akay, was detained on Saturday
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Experts warned for years that many new buildings in Turkey were unsafe due to endemic corruption and government policies.
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