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Subject Turkey’s Earthquake Aftermath Underscores the Value of Civil Society
Date July 20, 2023 11:48 AM
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More than 50,000 people lost their lives as a result of the two earthquakes that struck southern Turkey in February. The state failed in both disaster preparedness and its response to the devastation, which aggravated human suffering.

Even with the authoritarian government’s escalating restrictions on independent activism, Turkish civil society has stepped in, providing large-scale humanitarian aid and banding together to defend the human rights of survivors in the ongoing aftermath of the catastrophe.

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