That means that more than 1 in 10 children born are going to die early of disease and malnutrition. Because of contaminated water and unsanitary conditions all around, a simple cut on the finger can lead to poisoning and death. In the past 9 years, 1.7 million people have died as a direct result of US sanctions. Read that figure again, aloud. That is roughly 117 times as many as have died in the Turkish earthquake.
Earthquakes are natural disasters.
Sanctions and bombings are government-made ones. And the bombing doesn't stop. Day after day, the US drops more bombs in a continued attempt to overthrow the government. The planes take off from a base in Turkey, which has been a leading backer of the US war against Iraq. This fact sheds a little light on how it is that the US has been so forthcoming with earthquake aid in Turkey while actually bringing about a disaster in Iraq.