{"id":997857,"date":"2023-02-18T23:02:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T23:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=8cd2d78d8fb69d1a40b8efdf7ec3e2b4"},"modified":"2023-02-18T23:02:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T23:02:30","slug":"syria-and-turkeys-earthquake-reminds-us-that-disasters-are-inherently-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/18\/syria-and-turkeys-earthquake-reminds-us-that-disasters-are-inherently-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria and Turkey\u2019s Earthquake Reminds Us That Disasters Are Inherently Political"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, February 6, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern T&uuml;rkiye and northwest Syria in the early hours of the morning. It was followed by another 7.5 magnitude earthquake hours later, as well as over a hundred aftershocks in the days that followed. It is the deadliest and most powerful earthquake to hit T&uuml;rkiye since 1939, and to hit Syria in more than 800 years, and the death toll is...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/syria-and-turkeys-earthquake-reminds-us-that-disasters-are-inherently-political\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/syria-and-turkeys-earthquake-reminds-us-that-disasters-are-inherently-political\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no natural disaster untouched by politics, capitalism and racism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23578,57568,7537,4861,4721,196,1320],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997858,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997857\/revisions\/997858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}