In Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, there are nine circles of hell. After the May election defeat of Turkey’s unprecedentedly optimistic opposition reaffirmed the illiberal authoritarianism of President Erdoğan, the nation’s residents, including citizens, refugees, and migrants of all kinds, might have felt that they had descended more than one rung lower from Limbo to Treachery, perhaps landing somewhere between Greed and Anger.
Following the twin earthquakes that struck Turkey’s southeast on February 6, politicization reduced over 50,000 deaths to the promise and privilege of the powerful few from construction zones in
