New development in the expert report for the Furkan Apartment building, which collapsed in the February 6 earthquakes!

Kahramanmaraş-centered earthquakes, only the Furkan Apartment building collapsed in the Nizip district of Gaziantep.

The Nizip Chief Public Prosecutor's Office had requested prison sentences of up to 15 years each for the detained defendants Eyüp Öğüt, Faik Öğüt, Nejdet Alpay, Yılmaz Şahin Yurtyapan, and the non-detained defendants Abdullah Devrim Sever and Hasan Hüseyin Sever in the indictment on charges of "causing death and injury by negligence."

In the last hearing, the court decided to issue a red notice for the fugitive defendants and the building's contractors, Abdullah Devrim Sever and Hasan Hüseyin Sever.

THEY WERE STATED TO BE PRIMARILY AT FAULT

Karadeniz Technical University, from which the court most recently requested a new expert report, reached the following conclusion with a committee of 7 academics:

''The Static Project Author, the Construction Manager, the Technical Implementation Supervisor (TUS), the Technical Responsible, the Site Manager, the person or persons responsible for the terrace floor addition made without a project or license, and the alterations and changes made to the ground and mezzanine floors, as well as the persons responsible for project controls in the relevant units of the municipality regarding building permits, are primarily at fault.''

The report also stated that the municipality's building control and other relevant units were partially at fault.

COLUMN REINFORCEMENT AREA IS INSUFFICIENT

The expert report stated that ''it was determined that there was no ground survey report at the project stage of the Furkan Apartment, the content of the static project was insufficient, the foundation dimensions were inadequate, the foundation soil bearing capacity was insufficient, and the column reinforcement area was insufficient.''

The report also emphasized the incompatibility of the number and dimensions of the load-bearing system elements between the as-built survey and the project, as well as the insufficiency of the reinforcement detailing during the construction phase of the apartment. It was also noted that there were discrepancies between the project and the implementation at the completion stage of the apartment.

"IN A PROJECTLESS AND UNAUTHORIZED MANNER..."

Here are the findings included in the report:

''Considering all the reports and evidence sent to the committee within the scope of the file; it has been concluded that there were differences in cross-section and layout axes according to the static project in the construction of some of the load-bearing system elements, and there were deficiencies in the reinforcement detailing (stirrup spacing, hooks, bends, etc.) in the construction of the building's load-bearing system elements.

Considering all the reports sent to the committee within the scope of the file, it has been determined that additions were made to the ground, mezzanine, and terrace floors in a projectless and unauthorized manner after the construction of the building was completed and it began to be used. When all the reports and evidence received by the committee are evaluated collectively, it has been assessed that the S11 column was cut after the building construction was completed, the S4A and S5A columns located in the basement were not built, and the S3A and S4A columns located on the sides of these columns were built by being shifted."

"It is clearly evident that one column was cut"

Regarding the subject, the victims' lawyer, Mehmet Aykut Başderici, said the following:

"Since our request for judicial control in the form of at least a travel ban for the defendants, whose fault status was not clear from the beginning of the process, was rejected, the defense of the defendants cannot currently be taken by the court. Since a verdict for punishment cannot be given regarding defendants whose defense has not been taken, it is highly probable that the files of those with arrest warrants will be separated, and a decision will be made regarding the others whose defenses have been taken. However, we do not think it is appropriate to make a decision regarding the other defendants without taking the defense of the fugitives."

While it is clearly evident in the expert reports from Karadeniz Technical University that one column in the Furkan Apartment was cut, we believe that requesting punishment for intentional negligence resulting in death is contrary to procedure and law."

The next hearing will be held on April 26.