Cihan Tuğal on the Earthquakes in Turkey and Possible Prevention

The catastrophic loss of life in the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria on February 6th have sparked numerous questions, such as: What can possibly explain such a high number of casualties and the widespread destruction of old and new buildings? Host Shahram Aghamir spoke to Cihan Tuğal about this topic. Host: Shahram Aghamir Guest: Cihan Tuğal, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism, and Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa.