Compare the response of two countries, one Middle Eastern, the other European. In Turkey, twin earthquakes on February 6 took more than 50,000 lives, even though there was warning about the impending earthquake. In Greece, a train crash on March 1
[W]hen the earthquakes struck, the Kızılay [Turkish Red Crescent] had, through a little-known business arm, sold thousands of tents to a Turkish charity, and scored a profit of $2.5 million, instead of dispatching the tents immediately to the victims