A RELIGIOUS AND SOCIOLOGICAL OVERVIEW OF THE ATTITUDES OF EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS TO MAKE SENSE OF THE EARTHQUAKE PHENOMENON

Authors : Hayrettin Karadeniz, Yavuz Güven Met

Pages : 439-459

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Publication Date : 2023-10-21

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This study focuses on the earthquake that struck Turkey on 06/02/2023 and 20/02/2023 and the attitudes of earthquake victims influenced by this disaster toward perceiving and making sense of the earthquake phenomenon. As Turkey is an earthquake country, this natural disaster, which it has constantly faced throughout its special history, causes great destruction in the geography where it occurs and threatens the functioning of social life. In the context of this research, where we tried to analyze the views and attitudes of disaster survivors about the earthquake, in-depth interviews were held with earthquake survivors who came to Giresun from the earthquake zone. In this study, which is basically a qualitative study, some quantitative data were also utilized and the earthquake phenomenon was tried to be analyzed from a hermeneutic perspective. In the study, Turkey\'s earthquake history and the reality of earthquake as a risk factor were discussed through the literature, and the different ways of interpreting the earthquake by different individuals were analyzed based on the conducted interviews. In this context, even though the participants had different views on the perception and interpretation of the earthquake, they mostly attributed religious and divine meanings to it. However, a large majority attributed the cause of the collapse of the buildings to the irresponsibility of the people themselves and the lack of professional ethics. Most of the participants argued that the earthquake was triggered by the sins/evils committed by people, while a smaller number of participants believed that the breakage of fault lines caused the earthquake.
Keywords : Deprem, Depremzede, Kader, Günah, Ahlak