The upper 2 floors of the collapsed building in Maltepe turned out to be illegal! Have the columns been cut?

The incident took place at around 05.40 today in the 7-storey building located in Maltepe Cevizli Mahallesi Doğu Sokak. According to the information obtained, the building collapsed for an unknown reason. Following the incident, the relevant teams were dispatched to the region, and a judicial process was initiated regarding the incident.

It was reported that an investigation was launched by the Istanbul Anatolian Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to examine the incident. Within the scope of the investigation, 1 Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor and 2 Public Prosecutors were assigned.

MALTEPE MAYOR KÖYMEN: TWO TIMES ARE ILLEGAL

Maltepe Mayor Esin Köymen said, "Most likely, several floors folded and the building tilted sideways due to column weakness. Rescue efforts continue." he said.

Köymen said in the NTV live broadcast to which he was connected that they had detected illegal access to the top two floors of the building and used the following expressions:

"The issue is exactly how many floors the building has in the occupancy. It is a building built in the 80s, and when we removed its project from the archives, we saw that the building we saw had two illegal floors. The occupancy seems to be 5 floors, but two floors were illegal. We checked the minutes in our municipality archive and saw that the building had such a situation."

Explaining how the incident took place, Köymen said, "A report of the building sitting on the ground and lying on its side was received around 6.30 in the morning. When we arrived at the scene, we saw that the building was sitting on the basement floor and the first floor and was leaning backwards."

"WE HAVE OPENED OUR WHOLE ARCHIVES, THERE IS NO COMPLAINT COMING TO US"

Underlining that they had not received any notice about the collapsed building before, Köymen said, "We had all our archives opened at the municipality, we checked whether there had been any applications regarding whether the building was risky or not, and whether any action had been taken regarding this. We did not receive any complaints."

On the other hand, Istanbul Governor Davut Gül came to the scene, made investigations and made a statement. Stating that the building was built in 1987, Gül said, "It is a ground plus 6-storey building. The ground floor shop uses the 6 floors as flats. There are 12 flats in total, and according to the civil registry office, a total of 33 people live. Contact was made with 4 of the 7 people under the rubble."

WERE THE COLUMNS CUT?

On the other hand, former AKUT member Tanyel Yılmaz, who was connected to the live broadcast, noted that the building, whose lower floors collapsed, fell from 10-12 meters and that it was remarkable that the upper floors remained intact.

Stating that the absence of any damage on the upper floors strengthens the possibility of cutting columns on the lower floors, Yılmaz argued that the building was built solid during construction, but there may be work on the load-bearing columns.

Yılmaz said, "When the workplaces at the bottom of the building are built, the columns and beams inside are not left standing. Things done to make money cost lives." he said.