Investigation started against 612 people for irregularities in building construction in Turkey

The government has launched an investigation against more than 600 people in Turkey for not constructing buildings in accordance with proper laws. In the morning of February 6, a strong earthquake of magnitude 7.8 caused about 173,000 buildings to collapse in Turkey.

More than 44 thousand people lost their lives buried under the rubble. The government of the country is going to take legal action against the people involved due to the defects in the construction of the building. Turkey's Law Minister Bekir Bazdag gave this information on Saturday. Al-Jazeera news According to Al Jazeera, the authorities have started an investigation against the contractors, managers and owners of the buildings that collapsed in the earthquake at the beginning of this month in Turkey.

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• Turkish Law Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Saturday that 184 people have been arrested out of 612 people. Based on the investigation, data collection of the buildings is ongoing.
  On February 6, earthquakes of magnitude 7.8 and 7.6 struck Turkey. More than 44,000 people have been killed in Turkey alone. Five and a half thousand have been killed in neighboring Syria. In the event of so much destruction and casualties in the earthquake, the structural integrity of building construction in Turkey has been questioned. Erdoğan's opponents complain that the government has failed to implement the construction law.
  According to Al Jazeera, the authorities have started an investigation against the contractors, managers and owners of the buildings that collapsed in the earthquake at the beginning of this month in Turkey.
  Turkish Law Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Saturday that 184 people have been arrested out of 612 people. Based on the investigation, data collection of the buildings is ongoing.

On February 6, earthquakes of magnitude 7.8 and 7.6 struck Turkey. More than 44,000 people have been killed in Turkey alone. Five and a half thousand have been killed in neighboring Syria. In the event of so much destruction and casualties in the earthquake, the structural integrity of building construction in Turkey has been questioned. Erdoğan's opponents complain that the government has failed to implement the construction law.

"Those in prison include construction contractors, building owners or managers," he said in a televised address from a coordination center in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey. '

"On the basis of the investigation, data collection of the buildings is going on," added the minister.