*Correspondent in Istanbul*
It is a bitter memory, a national trauma difficult to heal. “But the earthquake that devastated the southern part of the country has awakened a deep fear: that of the ‘Big One’ in our city of 16 million inhabitants, exposed like 70% of the Turkish population to a seismic risk,” he concedes.
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