A Turning Point in Türkiye’s Seismic History: The 6 February Earthquakes
Meltem Şenol Balaban
Assoc. Prof. Dr., Faculty Member, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning, METU. Director, METU Disaster Management Implementation and Research Center.
On 6 February 2023, as preparations for the Republic’s centennial anniversary were in the top gear across Türkiye’s vast geographical landscape, two successive earthquakes plunged the country into another direction, another air – an atmosphere where preparations for a landmark centenary celebration was forced to take a back seat in the social, cultural, and or…