Quake anger fades in Erdogan stronghold ahead of Turkey election

  • last year
Two months after a deadly earthquake killed more than 50,000, and weeks before a presidential election, Kahramanmaras, in southeastern Turkey, has creaked back into life. Much of the fury directed at President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government in the wake of the disaster has begun to fade in a province that gave him three quarters of its vote in Turkey's last election. One Kahramanmaras resident, shopkeeper Latif Dalyan, believes "we couldn't have done better. It wasn't easy."

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