Sentence reduced for owner of deadly collapsed building who fled to Cyprus

The owner of a block of flats which collapsed, killing 96 people inside, and who then attempted to flee to Cyprus to start a new life in the hours after the building’s collapse, has had his prison sentence reduced from an initial 865 years down to 22 and a half years, on appeal.

Hasan Alpargun owned the eponymous Alpargun apartment building in the southeastern Turkish city of Adana, which collapsed on February 6, 2023, in the aftermath of the two devastating earthquakes which hit the region on that day.