Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk criticizes the government’s belated response to the earthquake in Turkey.
Pamuk, a writer from Turkey (former Turkey), wrote in an article for the New York Times (NYT) on the 11th, “Although relief supplies have been dispatched, trucks loaded with relief supplies have been stuck for hours on roads hundreds of miles away from the affected area.” “No one did anything,” he said.
“Victims start protesting by blocking the roads of vehicles carrying out official duties, police and civil servants. I’ve never seen people so angry. The relief team arrived two days after the earthquake, but it was too weak and too late.”
This earthquake is considered the largest in the history of Turkey since the 1939 magnitude 7.8 earthquake that killed 33,000 people.
“There is little information about what is going on in the rural towns, with roads closed and communications networks not functioning properly due to power outages and disruptions in communications networks,” he said. I see posts on social media (social media) telling me that some villages have been completely destroyed.” “It’s a disaster of an astounding and shocking scale,” he said, expressing frustration.
“The feeling of the 1999 Marmara earthquake, which claimed more than 17,000 lives, is being recreated,” said Pamuk. I thought maybe I could help, but no one could. I wanted to forget it, but I couldn’t forget it, and the afterimages of that day linger along with the frustration and sadness.”
Meanwhile, Pamuk, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, is a world-renowned master well known to Korean readers. Through his works, he reflected the history and society of Turkey in three dimensions, and also accused the treatment of minorities in Turkey and their human rights.
Source: Donga
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