Turkey President accepts some problems with response as death toll passes 15,000

BBC reported that Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended his government’s response to two catastrophic earthquakes, saying it was impossible to prepare for the scale of the disaster.

Over 15,000 people are confirmed dead in Turkey and northern Syria.

Critics claimed the emergency services response was too slow and the government was poorly prepared.

Mr Erdogan accepted the government had encountered some problems, but said the situation was now “under control”.