There is no natural disaster untouched by politics, capitalism and racism.
For two days after the earthquake, Türkiye’s stock exchange was in free fall–but with the exception of cement company stocks. Investors bought up shares, predicting lucrative reconstruction efforts, and causing frustration and anger that the stock exchange should have been closed after the earthquake. The stock exchange has since temporarily closed after this, but the spike in cement stocks foreshadows a reconstruction process that prioritizes profit over need.
Northwest Syria, Idlib province in particular, is the last bastion of rebel-held Syria, housing millions of internally displaced Syrians who fled previous rebel-held areas besieged and bombed by the Assad regime and its Russian ally, and have nowhere to go and few resources. Many of them have faced multiple rounds of displacement already and live in precarious conditions.
Until Monday, February 13, the UN only allowed international aid to enter through one border crossing, the Al-Bab crossing. For the first three days after the earthquake, the UN claimed that the road was blocked; only the bodies of the deceased were entering Syria from Türkiye. On Monday, February 13, the Assad regime agreed to the opening of two more border crossings from Turkiye into Syria.
Assad’s allies, Russia and Iran, have also provided relief for the earthquake through Damascus, in addition to about a dozen other countries–including the UAE and Egypt. In fact, Assad is already using the earthquake to push for the furthering of normalization with countries regionally and internationally in an attempt to end the Syrian regime’s isolation over the past decade.
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