WAN, — According to local sources the assembled houses and winter tents are given only to people who have relations and connections with the members of the Turkey’s ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party).
The city of Wan has been hit by continuous quakes since early November. The AKP government has repeatedly failed to help the survivors and it’s reported to save only its ‘own people’ in the area. Those who don’t support the AKP, are left no choice but to migrate or try to survive in jerry-build tents.
According to ANF one of the quake’s victims Muharrem Aydinli complains that the Turkish media reflects the image AKP wants, not the realities in Wan. The media dissembles the discrimination in the distribution of aid materials and the promises of PM Erdogan and government officials have produced no recovery in the area, said Aydinli.
Aydinli also says that “The life in Wan began to go worse and worse as of the end of the first week. People were sending aid materials from all parts of the country but we don’t know to whom those materials were given. Those who have close relations with the Governor or a member of the AKP were the first ones to benefit from these materials which were kept under the control of police and gendarmerie. You are abandoned to your fate if you don’t have such connections with authorities. Besides, the media acted in accordance with this process.”
In regard to the discrimination Aydinli says, “I am trying to survive in a two square meter tent with my wife and six children. Yes, prefabricated houses have been built but the relatives and friends of government officials have been settled in all of them. Thousands of poor people like me myself are getting closer to death day by day. I have spoken to Turkish channels at least ten times do far but none of them has broadcast my expressions. They don’t reflect the truths we tell.”