The unspeakable anger and sadness that has covered a huge area in SE Turkey centered on the archival Greek city of Germanikeia or Kahramanmaras, as it is called today, has also affected Turkish military installations to an unknown extent.
According to a website on social networks, “the airstrip at Antioch (Hatai) Airport, which is used by the Turkish Air Force to deploy ground control stations for unmanned aerial vehicles and as a resupply base for transport aircraft for the occupying Turkish occupation forces in Syria, has suffered great damage."
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Στρατηγός Φράγκος για Τουρκία: Η αλληλεγγύη να είναι το πρωτεύον – Οι δύο χώρες να προχωρήσουν μαζί (Βίντεο)
Also, the Turks have not told us anything about the naval base and facilities in Alexandretta, from which the Turkish Navy operates in the Eastern Mediterranean, and we are not going to know what has become of it either.
The magnitude 7.4 earthquake was extremely strong and there is likely to be damage to the Turkish base of an unknown level.
Warships and submarines of the Turkish Navy are docked at this base.
The Turkish government is mobilizing the Army
After the Kahramanmaras earthquake, rescue crews from many places flocked to the area.
Turkish soldiers of the Tuzla Gendarmerie 3 Commando and miners working in the mines in Zonguldak were sent to the area.
The 7.4-magnitude earthquake was felt in the east, southeast, Mediterranean, Central Anatolia and the Black Sea.
Together with the search and rescue teams from various districts of Istanbul, the soldiers of the 3rd Tuzla Gendarmerie Command gathered at Sabiha Gökçen Airport and started for the earthquake zones.
Bombardment of Turkish public opinion for an alleged Western "attack" on Turkey
According to Greek sources, "for several hours now, Turkish Public Opinion has been bombarded by fake news mainly from Chinese and Indian accounts.
This is being addressed by the Turkish Government by allowing leading Turkish media outlets to report that the earthquake was the work of the US."
The paranoia of Turkish conspiracy theorists reached the point of considering even the presence of an American Warship in the Bosphorus as "suspicious".
The Hurriyet newspaper even reported that "one of the aforementioned conspiracy theories was based on a possible 'attack' by a US warship that had been anchored in the Bosphorus for 2 days".
For this reason, we called retired Rear Admiral Cem Gürdeniz, father of the "Blue Homeland" who said: "The same thing was reported in the 1999 Gyolchuk earthquake.
No warships have been built, and are not capable of attacking with "special systems" to cause an earthquake. This is called a "conspiracy theory" and it is unscientific.
In addition, the anchored American destroyer USS Nitze was in poor condition.
Even its paint has peeled off. Furthermore, the fact that they hoisted a huge American flag on the mainmast during his presence shows that they don't even know about naval customs.
Hoisting a flag of this size when visiting a port in a sovereign state may create discomfort in the visiting country as an unnecessary provocation or chauvinistic attitude.
Apparently the crew is inexperienced and doesn't know what to do. It is impossible for a crew that does not even know this to organize an attack or something like that in Turkey," he concluded.
Conspiracy theories abound in Turkey, emerging because in the past days the US had threatened Ankara over its trade and economic relations with Russia, which the US had called unacceptable and impermissible.
It's one thing and another to present non-existent theories about supposed systems that cause earthquakes, like the one in SE Turkey, this morning.
