Google’s earthquake warning system failed to get to many Turkish residents before February’s deadly tremor, a BBC Newsnight investigation has found.
Google says its alert system can give users up to a minute’s notice on their phones before an earthquake hits.
It says its alert was sent to millions before the first, biggest quake.
However, the BBC visited three cities in the earthquake zone, speaking to hundreds of people, and didn’t find anyone who had received a warning.
The system works on Android phones, essentially any phone that isn’t an iPhone. Android phones, which are often more affordable, make up about 80% of the phones in Turkey.
Of coure! Google doesn’t deliver messages to Turkey anymore: it’s Türkiye now.
Most people still refer to it as Turkey, so it’s still Turkey (although it’s not wrong to write/say Türkiye).
But isn’t the pronunciation still supposed to be the same?
I still have trouble ordering Myammar-Shave and Sri Lankan tea. Ordering a türkiye sandwich might take even more getting used to…
Different languages have different names for countries. For example Germany vs Deutschland, or Olanda vs Nederland. Turkey can want whatever it wants, it’s hard to dictate a country’s name in other languages.