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Dos mujeres frente a un edificio derrumbado después del terremoto en el distrito de Elbistan de Kahramanmaras, Turquía, en febrero. Sedat Suna/EPA vía Shutterstock

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En las últimas semanas, muchas personas de todo el mundo han celebrado conmigo varios primeros hitos de mi carrera: desde ganar mi primer Globo de Oro y mi primer premio del Sindicato de Actores de Cine, hasta ganar mi primer Oscar (por mejor actriz). Aunque estoy agradecida por este momento inolvidable de mi vida profesional, quisiera dirigir el foco internacional hacia un asunto que es muy personal para mí, y que merece la atención del mundo.

Mi vida cambió hace ocho años, cuando un momento sacudió mi visión del mundo.

Era el 25 de abril de 2015, y estaba en Nepal con mi pareja, Jean Todt, visitando varias organizaciones del lugar.…  Seguir leyendo »

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The devastating Feb. 6 earthquake that hit Turkey could have united the country. Instead, the catastrophe — which has taken the lives of at least 46,000 people inside the country — is widening the political divide between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his opponents. With a general election just nine weeks away, Erdogan is confronting a wave of public anger over poor governance and misguided centralization.

After 20 years in power, Erdogan has been badly weakened by the quake. The opposition finally has a chance to beat him. But they should not assume it will be easy.

On March 6, the opposition parties announced their decision to rally behind Kemal Kilicdaroglu, 74, the leader of the secularist Republican People’s Party.…  Seguir leyendo »

Munavver Beyaz mourns the death of her son Mustapha in Adiyaman, Turkey. Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times

Europa,

Beneath each fresh mound in this rapidly expanding graveyard lies a tragedy. One morning at dawn, Zeki Karababa told me about his.

Karababa’s brother, Hamit; Hamit’s wife, Fatma; and two children, Ahmet, 10, and Evra, 3, had been crushed when their apartment building crumbled in the earthquake.

But that was just the beginning.

“For three days there were no professional rescuers”, Karababa told me. By the time they found his relatives, all four were dead.

“I took the bodies with my bare hands”, he said, weeping. “Nobody came to help us”.

It is a refrain I heard over and over in the week I spent traversing southeastern Turkey last month.…  Seguir leyendo »

‘There are reports from human rights organisations that it is harder to find a tent or access aid if you are a single woman.’ Tents for earthquake survivors in Adiyaman, Turkey, 25 February 2023. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

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In Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, one of the most ravaged cities in the recent earthquakes, 25-year-old Alev Altun, the mother of two young children, became homeless in one night, like thousands of others. Having nowhere to go, she agreed to take refuge in the house of her ex-husband, on his invitation, assuming it would be safer to stay with the father of her children than alone in a tent or in a building at risk of collapse.

While she was sleeping, her ex-husband allegedly poured scalding water all over her, shouting she should be grateful that he had not killed her.…  Seguir leyendo »

Muhammad Al Halbouni, de 31 años, perdió una pierna en un bombardeo hace años. En el terremoto a principios de febrero perdió a sus dos hijas. Diego Ibarra Sanchez para The New York Times

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Ella no recuerda el terremoto que le partió la espalda y se tragó a sus hijas. Khaira al Halbouni solo sabe lo que le contó su marido después. En la mitad de la noche, el edificio tembló. Él agarró a una de sus hijas, Bisan, y a su hijo, Alí. Carga a Mayas —su hija menor— y corre, gritó.

Ella se llevó instintivamente la mano al velo. Después, nada.

Lo primero que Khaira recuerda es despertar sobre un montón de escombros. Vio un pequeño rayo de luz, y después un par de botas. Gritó. Miró alrededor, buscando a su hija. Habían pasado casi 30 horas.…  Seguir leyendo »

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, February 2023. Presidential Press Office / Handout / Reuters

Europa,

The earthquakes that struck ten southern Turkish provinces on February 6 mark the country’s worst humanitarian disaster in modern history. Bustling cities were leveled, ancient citadels crumbled, and thousands of residential and commercial buildings collapsed. In addition to numerous casualties in neighboring Syria, more than 44,000 people have died in Turkey as of February 24. More than 100,000 people have been injured and millions more are currently homeless. One-sixth of Turkey’s population—more than 13 million people—is thought to have been affected by the earthquakes.

Providing relief to the stricken areas is the Turkish government’s most immediate concern. The disaster, however, poses not just a logistical challenge but also a political one.…  Seguir leyendo »

A medic prepares a drip aboard the Turkish warship TCG Sancaktar, which is ready to receive and treat victims of the recent earthquake, in the port of Iskenderun, Turkey, on Feb. 19. YASIN AKGUL/AFP via Getty Images

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In 1999, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck near Marmara, Turkey, causing close to 18,000 deaths and leaving tens of thousands more people injured, displaced, or sorting through the rubble of their collapsed city. The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) mobilized immediately, and within the first 48 hours, it deployed approximately 65,000 personnel to lead the search, rescue, evacuation, and sheltering efforts. Soldiers went beyond their active military duties to operate field hospitals, tent cities, and mobile kitchens to affected citizens, ultimately proving crucial to the country’s recovery from the disaster.

More than two decades later, another tragedy has struck Turkey as well as parts of northern Syria in one of the deadliest quakes in recent history.…  Seguir leyendo »

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech after receiving an honorary doctorate of laws from Waseda University in Tokyo on October 8, 2015. YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP via Getty Images

Europa,

The devastating earthquake on Feb. 6 that ravaged south and central Turkey and northwestern Syria, resulting in the loss of more than 46,000 lives, revealed many fault lines beyond those in the earth. It’s been noted that the disaster has exposed the widespread corruption—in the form of the many shoddy construction contracts that were approved by the government despite tightened regulations that had been adopted after the 1999 Izmit earthquake—on which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rule of 20 years has been based. But the earthquake has also brought to light a fault line between the country’s scientists and academics and a regime based on contempt and disregard for knowledge and expertise.…  Seguir leyendo »

Rescue workers last week in Islahiye, Turkey. Mehmet Kacmaz/Getty Images

Europa,

We were late to the scene of the crime.

Two days late. When the first earthquakes hit southern Turkey on Feb. 6, it took one full day of planning and one full day of travel before we reached the epicenter, Gaziantep. The flight from Istanbul usually takes about 90 minutes, but there was a rush of people heading south to help, and our group — about 160 search and rescue volunteers — had to wait our turn.

When we finally reached Islahiye, a town in Gaziantep Province, a man with dust-encrusted hair asked the gendarme why, four days after the earthquake that had caused the Sehit Zafer Yilmaz apartment building to collapse on his family and 19 others, we were finally listening for sounds of life in the rubble.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Dos fuertes y devastadores temblores de tierra han sacudido recientemente el sureste de Turquía y el norte de Siria en un lapso de tiempo de nueve horas: uno de magnitud 7,8 con epicentro a 600 kilómetros al sureste de Ankara, sobre el segmento sur de la gran falla transcurrente de Anatolia Oriental (de 700 km de longitud) que separa la placa de Anatolia de la de Arabia; otro de magnitud 7,5 con epicentro a unos 100 kilómetros al norte de Alepo (Siria), sobre una falla lateral.

La zona es una de las de mayor actividad sísmica del mundo, aunque había permanecido relativamente tranquila en las últimas décadas.…  Seguir leyendo »

A partially collapsed house in the Syrian town of Azaz close to the border with Turkey, following the earthquakes in February 2023. Photo by BAKR ALKASEM/AFP via Getty Images.

MundoOriente Próximo,

Despite sharing a catastrophe, the earthquake aftermath and response in Syria and Turkey could not be further apart.

Turkey has received an outpouring of support and aid from dozens of countries and tens of thousands of search-and-rescue personnel, including international teams, have been deployed to Turkey’s east.

In contrast, only five per cent of the impacted sites and towns in northwest Syria are being covered by the overstretched Syria Civil Defence – known as the White Helmets – search-and-rescue operations, according to the United Nations (UN).

The level of relief aid which has entered northwest Syria has also been limited so far, with bureaucracy, manipulation of aid, and a lack of political will among the main factors hindering efforts to help the most impacted region in Syria.…  Seguir leyendo »

InternacionalONUMundoOriente Próximo,

t’s been an entire week since the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria — seven days of horror and heartache on a scale we did not experience even in the darkest hours of the Syrian conflict.

Our team of White Helmets volunteer rescue workers in northwest Syria have been working around the clock night and day, pulling survivors from the rubble and searching for signs of life — with virtually no help from the outside world.

Our hope of finding survivors has faded. As we pull more dead bodies from the rubble, my heart breaks for every soul that could have been saved and was needlessly lost because we did not get the help we needed in time.…  Seguir leyendo »

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El enorme terremoto que sacudió el este de Turquía y el noroeste de Siria en la madrugada del lunes 6 ha provocado conmoción y horror tanto en la región como en Europa. A estas alturas, ya roza los 42.000 fallecidos y hay miles de edificios arrasados en los dos países, muchos de los cuales no cumplían las normas sísmicas, sobre todo en el lado sirio, destrozado por una década de guerra y abandono de los poderes civiles. Los gobiernos europeos se han movilizado para enviar equipos y material de rescate, pero la situación geopolítica de la región afectada ha supuesto un grave problema.…  Seguir leyendo »

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a visit last Saturday to Diyarbakir, Turkey, after an earthquake struck the region. (Ilyas Akengin/AFP/Getty Images)

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Turkey’s horrific earthquakes are a human tragedy. It would be even more tragic if Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used them as an excuse to postpone the country’s scheduled June elections. President Biden and other Western leaders should use their influence to prevent that from happening.

Erdogan has ruled the country since 2003 as head of the Justice and Development Party, also known as the AKP, the initials of its Turkish name. He has done so in an increasingly autocratic manner, arresting journalists and political opponents, though the country’s election mechanism remains largely fair and free.

In Turkey’s most recent elections, the opposition captured the mayoralties of its two largest cities, Istanbul and Ankara.…  Seguir leyendo »

The rescue effort among damaged buildings following the earthquake in the city of Jenderes, Syria, on February 12, 2023. Photo by Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

MundoOriente Próximo,

The earthquakes that have devastated northwest Syria are highly unlikely to reinvigorate the stalled Syrian peace process. Rather, they have already amplified existing political fault lines.

The natural disaster has highlighted deepening divides between the Syrian regime of Bashar Al Assad and its allies on one side and the Syrian opposition and its international backers on the other side, as well as the impotence of the UN.

Damascus is trying to use the humanitarian catastrophe to get out of international isolation. Shortly after the earthquakes, the regime’s public reaction was not to express condolences for all Syrian people affected by the tragedy but to use its key figures to try to achieve de facto legitimacy on the international stage for Assad.…  Seguir leyendo »

El incendio de Dixie en California fue el segundo incendio más grande en la historia del estado. Arrasó con más de 963.000 acres en 2021. Josh Edelson/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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El número de muertes reportadas por el terremoto en Turquía y Siria aumenta todos los días. No es solo una tragedia local en la que muere gente de un país muy lejano. Los desastres naturales han golpeado y golpearán en todo el mundo, incluido Estados Unidos. ¿Cuáles son sus repercusiones? ¿Qué lecciones se pueden aprender de ellos?

Tal vez la lección más destacada sea esta: la mala suerte es inevitable y debemos anticiparnos y prepararnos para ella.

Para los estadounidenses, quizá nuestra primera asociación con los terremotos sea el que destruyó a San Francisco en 1906. Se estima que murieron alrededor de 3000 personas, pero ha habido al menos ocho terremotos documentados desde el año 1500 en el mundo con un número total de fallecimientos mayor a 100.000 personas, entre ellos el terremoto de Tokio de 1923 que acabó con la vida de 143.000 personas, superado por uno que dejó un saldo de casi un millón de personas fallecidas en China en 1556.…  Seguir leyendo »

People stand by a collapsed building in Adiyaman, southern Turkey, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. Thousands left homeless by a massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria a week ago packed into crowded tents or lined up in the streets Monday for hot meals as the desperate search for survivors entered what was likely its last hours. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

ReflexionesNaturaleza,

Though it might take weeks or months to confirm the death toll across Turkey and Syria, the latest number has topped 36,000. This makes this month’s earthquake the deadliest in the region in more than a century. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it was “not possible to be prepared for such a disaster”.

Data comparing similarly seismic countries suggests otherwise. Take Chile and Japan.

Chile sits along the Ring of Fire — an arc of faults and volcanoes circling the Pacific Ocean. It’s often hit by earthquakes as big, if not bigger, than those that shook Turkey and Syria. Incredibly, these now cause few deaths — if any.…  Seguir leyendo »

Arenas del Rey tras el terremoto que afectó a varias localidades de Granada (España) el 25 de diciembre de 1884. Wikimedia Commons

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De cuando en cuando salta a la palestra la noticia de un terremoto devastador que afecta una región del planeta provocando muchas víctimas, heridos, e infinidad de edificaciones destruidas. Siempre que ocurre, la prensa aborda el tema con celeridad. Periódicos, cadenas de televisión, radio y plataformas digitales nos inundan con un tsunami informativo que va de lo menos a lo más contrastado científicamente. Pero que hace especial hincapié en la desgracia y las imágenes más impactantes de la destrucción provocada.

Como cualquier ola, incluidas las de un tsunami, la atención informativa retrocede en tres o cuatro días. Y entonces, el “terremoto devastador” queda aletargado en las estanterías de las redacciones de los informativos, esperando su próximo despertar en otra parte del mundo.…  Seguir leyendo »

Europa,

Dos terremotos de magnitud 7,8 y 7,6 han asolado diez ciudades del sureste de Turquía. Un suceso así habría sido una catástrofe devastadora para cualquier país. Sin embargo, los habitantes del mío, como tantas veces en los últimos años, se debaten hoy una vez más entre el dolor ocasionado por un desastre natural y la legítima cólera que genera la desvergüenza del régimen, que no conoce límites. Muchos ya saben que los increíbles daños y la falta de ayuda no pueden atribuirse a la magnitud del desastre, sino a la falta de medidas, la inexistencia de un plan de contingencia y los despiadados intentos del régimen por encubrir su monumental metedura de pata.…  Seguir leyendo »

A doctor and family rush to safety in their pajamas on the snowy streets

MundoOriente Próximo,

Almost eight hours after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey and Syria early Monday, Dr. Abdurrahman Alomar and his family were bracing against the next onslaught.

With few safe places to go, the Syrian doctor, along his wife and two children, were taking refuge in his car, parked in an open area away from buildings.

Still, the ground continued to shake.

“I’m sorry, as I’m talking to you, a new aftershock is happening”, Alomar told CNN Opinion by phone from his car in the Turkish city of Gaziantep near the epicenter of the quake.

In the background, sirens wailed. And Alomar calmly described how hours earlier he had been woken by one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the region in more than a century.…  Seguir leyendo »