How many people really perished in the “disaster of the century” earthquake catastrophe that struck southeastern Turkey and northern Syria exactly one year ago today (February 6)? Officially, the calamity—the huge death toll of which is frequently attributed by critics to officials who customarily waved through non-quake-proofed housing in a known earthquake zone—took the lives of around 51,000 across 11 Turkish provinces. However, there are still multiple reports of people convinced that there are great numbers of missing inhabitants still buried in the rubble. One difficulty is that Turkey h…
