that are incredibly challenging for any government anywhere. there are millions of homes across this country that are not earthquake safe. it comes from several decades of poor building practices using poor materials and for any government somehow preparing all of those homes for the next big one would be a challenge ofjust tremendous proportions. so it is a little bit of both. i mean, president erdogan has been in power for two decades, he is ultimately the person who is most responsible at the helm of the government, and yet, the scale of the problem is so bad that anyone would be challenged to fix it. ., ., ., ., , to fix it. you mentioned that homes are not earthquake to fix it. you mentioned that homes are not earthquake safe to fix it. you mentioned that homes are not earthquake safe and - to fix it. you mentioned that homes are not earthquake safe and yet, i are not earthquake safe and yet, thatis are not earthquake safe and yet, that is in spite of the introduction of an ea
couple of petrol stations, there s very little fuel and you will find nothing on the shelves when you go in there, they have been completely cleaned out. people need things like food, the mobile phone signal to contact loved ones elsewhere. all of these things are internally difficult to obtain right now. people in turkey have been paying earthquake tax for years because this country is on a fault line, because an elf quake on this scale was expected, and what they say very strongly is that their country and their government should have been better prepared. aid is starting to come in. just in the last few hours, i have watched a tented aid village starts to grow just across the starts to growjust across the road from here. the art doing what they can, but it is enormously hard to get to places like this, the epicentre of the quake. the roads are still very badly damaged, and that hampers as well the sheer volume of aid that can come into cities like this. in a more rural areas, they s
plan to meet with him. i never, ever considered this issue above politics. his politics brought us to the situation, they led the gangs into taxes for the earthquake. where is that money? it s gone. well president erdogan has hit back at the accusations. translation: this is a period of unity. j it is the time of solidarity, in such a period, i do not accept viciously negative campaigns conducted in the name of campaigns conducted in the name of mere political interest. we can pick up on what the leader of the republican people s party has said with, kader sevinc, president of the eu representation for turkey s main opposition party. in 1999 we had a big earthquake in turkey. turkey is a country of earthquakes. the government imposed an earthquake tax and our people
but proper help from the state is not arriving fast enough. we report from the epicentre of the earthquake where survivors are spending their third night without shelter in freezing temperatures. quentin somerville will tell the story of a british search and rescue team as they try to save a woman buried in her home. and jeremy bowen reports from northern syria, a region already ravaged by years of war. in today s programme, our middle east correspondent anna foster was among the first journalists to reach the epicentre, and we canjoin her now. people here want to know why, three days after this earthquake, in a country where they are paid earthquake tax, because something like this had been on the cards for years, they want to know why they are still out on the streets, why they are still huddling gun fires like this to keep warm, and why the aid is taking so long to arrive.
nights they were left alone. what our president the main opposition party leader was referring by saying the games, there is a known issue for the turkey borders actually, because in turkey political corruption is a big thing. in the last two decades. as you mentioned earlier, 1999, we had a big earthquake in turkey. and turkey itself is a country of earthquakes. in the government imposed an earthquake tax. and our people have been told to this huge tax for years and years. and now, turkey is hit by a huge earthquake and the government isjust using this a huge earthquake and the government is just using this lack of resources or other excuses for us for their inaction, for their absence. so our