FILE PHOTO: Hasan Arslan, his wife Havva and children Saltuk and Fatmagul walk among what remains of their home, where they were trapped for five days until they were rescued, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Nurdagi, Turkey, March 4, 2023. REUTERS/Susana Vera
NURDAGI, Turkey (Reuters) - Almost every apartment tower in Nurdagi collapsed or was shattered beyond repair in last month's earthquake in Turkey - and people are now asking if a building boom in the town in recent decades may have to led to the deaths of thousands of residents.
The town's population swelled in recent years to some 25,000, residents say, driven in part by increasingly flexible regulations that allowed apartment blocks to reach as high as eight stories, from a limit of three previously.
