Kahramanmaraş based earthquakeThousands of people lost their lives there. Hatay’of Iskenderun 14 people lost their lives in the 17-storey MCG Towers apartment building in the Çay District of the district. 13 people were detained within the scope of the investigation into construction defects in the buildings destroyed in the disaster. Ground foremen attended the hearing of the case at Iskenderun 3rd High Criminal Court; Abdülhamit B., Ali C., company owner Ferhat S., construction officials Ali Cemil A, Hikmet Y. and company owner Mehmet Coşkun G., who is in prison for another crime, participated via Audio and Video Information System (SEGBİS). The court decided to continue the current situation of the defendants and postponed the hearing to May 31. After the hearing, those who lost their relatives in the apartment made a statement and demanded that those responsible be punished.
17 storey building On the beach in Iskenderun Stating that it is marketed as a skyscraper Süheyl Sümbültepe Citizen named “in Hatay We have been fighting blood and life for 1 year to investigate why our families died in the earthquake. Although static and architectural projects have not been shared with us for 1 year, the building audit Although the company did not present to the court what and how it did, we are investigating this process like a detective and investigating why this building was demolished. Moreover, half of this building, marketed as a skyscraper on the coast of Iskenderun, located in the 2nd section, was destroyed in the earthquake that occurred at night. Unfortunately, our court president did not issue an arrest warrant while it was clearly seen that it was a static project freak whose other half collapsed 12 hours after the second earthquake. “While there is no evidence other than this evidence in the case we will enter on May 31, we demand that the technical university reports be examined correctly, along with all that evidence,” he said.
“They did not build beams to open the sea view and reduce the cost.”
Lawyer Bülent Akbay said, “This building is a building where everything has been done wrong, from the foundation to the ground, and we can document this. For example, after the 3rd and 4th floors, this building continues to be built illegally. People are allowed to be built inside the building before it is used. “The deficiencies in question are unacceptable. For example, they did not make beams to open the sea view and reduce the cost,” he said.
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