Never-ending storeys: rebuilding Turkey
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The Economist
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🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
It will be years until the country recovers from February’s devastating earthquakes—but progress toward that goal will determine whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wins another mandate next month. Oft-overlooked data suggest that Africa’s baby boom is slowing, in a “demographic transition” the world has seen before. And remembering Traute Lafrenz, the last leafleter of the “White Rose” Nazi resistance.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Jason Paulman. |
| 0:07.8 | And I'm Aurea Bugumbi. |
| 0:10.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:17.8 | Policy makers, NGOs and others endlessly fret about explosive population growth in |
| 0:23.2 | Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| 0:25.0 | And they seem to be overlooking data that suggests Africa's baby boom is slowing in a demographic |
| 0:30.6 | transition just like the one that happened in Asia. |
| 0:35.4 | And in Nazi Germany, the White Rose Group thought of themselves as the nation's conscience. |
| 0:41.2 | But to Nazi leaders, they were propagandists spreading treasonous leaflets. |
| 0:46.4 | We reflect on the life of Tchao-Sylophens, the last of the group's members. |
| 0:55.5 | But first. |
| 1:04.1 | It's been just over two months since Turkey, along with neighbouring Syria, was hit by two |
| 1:10.0 | devastating earthquakes. |
| 1:17.0 | More than 50,000 people died and over 3 million others have been displaced. |
| 1:23.5 | Now, Turkey needs to find a way to urgently replace the affected homes and buildings. |
| 1:30.4 | But with a faltering economy and a weak currency, it will be a daunting task. |
| 1:36.9 | And with an election right around the corner, President Erdogan is under pressure to show |
| 1:42.8 | results sooner rather than later. |
| 1:46.4 | Turkey needs a massive rebuild. |
| 1:50.6 | The future of Zlefski is the economist's Turkey correspondent. |
| 1:54.9 | It's going to be hugely expensive. |
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