Locals within the city of Güvenç in quake-hit southeastern Hatay province have been pressured to desert their closely broken village and moved to a tent metropolis after the current catastrophic catastrophe wreaked havoc within the neighborhood, leaving a ghost city behind.
While a lot of the homes have been destroyed within the earthquake, consequential rockslides destroyed the remaining ones. The injury compelled the locals to shift someplace protected, turning the once-lively neighborhood right into a “ghost village.”
The 7.7 and seven.6 magnitude earthquakes that occurred within the Pazarcık and Elbistan districts of Kahramanmaraş prompted huge destruction within the middle and different districts of Hatay.
“There is no one left in our village,” shared Güvenç village’s mukhtar Ali Gedik.
“Our village comprises 300 houses. We were informed by the authorities earlier that we face a series of landslides but it is hard to move permanently and find settlement somewhere else,” Gedik lamented.
“I would say, this was not an earthquake, it’s the end of the world,” Mehmet Karakaya, a survivor, stated, expressing his concern of what he witnessed through the disaster.
“They banned construction in our village some 20 years ago, but we couldn’t move anywhere due to a lack of resources,” he added.
The whole village migrated miles from their homeland and settled within the tent metropolis established kilometers away from their homeland.
While the development of short-term container homes within the area continues for the residents who quickly reside within the tent metropolis, the residents of the neighborhood desire a everlasting house for themselves the place they’ll reside with no concern of landslides.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
