HDP’s Law and Human Rights Commission and party lawyers filed a criminal complaint against officials who issued unsupervised zoning permits and public institutions, organizations, individuals and contractors who neglected building controls and are responsible for the devastation in Maraş, Gaziantep, Adiyaman, Hatay, Malatya, Adana, Amed, Osmaniye, Kilis and Urfa, the cities affected by the earthquakes.

The criminal complaint requested punishments for the following officials and institutions:

Those who caused an increase in the death toll as a result of late, incomplete or incorrect search and rescue efforts,

Relevant municipality and ministry officials who did not carry out building inspections,

Officials who issued occupancy permits and residential used licences for the buildings that collapsed following the earthquakes,

Contractors who build the destroyed buildings and those who were involved in preparation of architectural plans, projects, drawings and calculations and their implementation,

All kinds of technical officers, building inspection officers and related persons who were involved in the construction phase of the destroyed buildings,

Authorities who approved zoning plans without considering fault lines,

Persons and institutions that issued building registration certificates in defiance of building standards as part of the building amnesties.

The criminal complaint demanded that all the accused in question be punished for deliberate killing and injury and destroying property.

The complaint also requested authorities to take urgent measures to prevent the suspects from escaping or hiding.