The grieving father, who had emotional moments while talking about his memories with his children, said:
"I talked to my son about work, my daughter was already very fond of me, and I was very fond of her. We found it very difficult for them, they were very precious. I don't remember my daughter calling me father, she would either say 'Daddy' or 'Daddy', she was such a son. My son is like that, I even reproached my son from time to time, I would ask why you are so good, do a little naughty."
"I lost my two precious babies." Father Mustafa İnan said and made a call with the following words:
"In this case, I would like to ask the owners, tenants, etc., who own buildings, to not live in them, but to file a complaint. If only I had children, but I had nothing, what will happen to the flat?"
BUILDING RESIDENTS COULD NOT AGREE ON TRANSFORMATION
It turned out that an illegal building with 4 floors could not be understood for urban transformation.
Mustafa İnan: "We had a process that reached the contractor, but unfortunately, the two shop owners came back from the contractor with negative things, and it remained that way, but we were putting pressure on the evacuation of the place from time to time. It had reached the point of having cores taken and complaining. But unfortunately, we could not reach this, this is the result." he said.
According to the research of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, there are more than 1,200 buildings in the city that could collapse spontaneously. After the 2023 earthquakes, 40 thousand buildings were examined and 18 thousand 800 were found to be risky.
The first three floors of the 7-storey building on East Street, Cevizli District, Maltepe district of Istanbul, collapsed on October 8.
While those trapped in the upper floors of the building that did not collapse were evacuated, a search and rescue operation was launched for 14 people under the rubble.
While nine people were rescued from the rubble alive, a total of five people died, one in hospital and four at the scene.
As part of the investigation launched into the incident, the architect of the building and the site manager were detained, and it was learned that the owner of the building, D.B., passed away in 2016.
THE BUILDING'S ARCHITECT AND SITE SUPERVISOR WERE ARRESTED
The architect of the building, Hasan Balcı, and the construction site manager Mevlüt Okumuş, who were detained within the scope of the investigation, were arrested.
HIS STATEMENTS WERE REVEALED
Architect Hasan Balcı, who was mentioned as the technical responsible in the building permit dated 1988, stated that he did not remember the construction and architectural project of the building. Balcı, who said that the stamp on the license belonged to him but did not accept the signatures, claimed that he was not involved in the construction of the building and did not carry out any inspection.
Balcı's lawyer, on the other hand, stated that construction vacation minutes were prepared twice for the building and claimed that there may have been irregularities in the process between the license and the building vacation minutes.
Technician Mevlüt Okumuş, whose statement was taken within the scope of the investigation, also said that he did not work in the construction of the building. Okumuş, who stated that he knew Balcı and had taken part in some of his projects in the past, claimed that the registration and signature on the documents belonging to the collapsed building did not belong to him.
Okumuş stated that he did not assume technical responsibility for the construction of the building and that he did not have any knowledge about the structure.
The statements of both suspects were taken within the scope of the charge of "negligent homicide".
