A press secretary for Kazakhstan\'s Agency for Extreme Situations, Kairzhan Turezhanov, told Deutsche Welle on 17 February that the collapse of the Turkish-built aqua park in Moscow has prompted Kazakh officials to approve a check of all Turkish-built structures in Almaty and Astana. The agency had already intended to look closely at such structures built in seismic zones, but the tragedy in Moscow motivated the agency to ask the government to agree to begin the inspections as quickly as possible and to expand its scope to include all buildings constructed by Turkish firms in recent years. Turkish construction firms have been prominent in the building boom in Almaty in the last five years, and have been responsible for more than 60 percent of construction projects in Astana since that city became the capital. Many of the Turkish-built structures in Astana are already disintegrating. (Deutsche Welle)