President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated Istanbul would full its city transformation in 5 years, clearing all earthquake dangerous buildings, as he along with Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bahçeli, attended a ceremony on Saturday for newly constructed village homes in Gaziantep’s Belpınar and Mesthüyük villages, and Türkoğlu Özbek village of Kahramanmaraş which had been ravaged by Feb. 6 earthquakes.
Stating that this yr’s Ramadan and Eid-al-Fitr had been underneath the shadow of the injuries inflicted on the hearts and the destruction triggered in houses by the Feb. 6 earthquakes, Erdoğan wished Allah’s mercy to the greater than 50,000 residents who misplaced their lives within the earthquakes and persistence to their kinfolk.
“After the last earthquake disaster, we immediately rolled up our sleeves. We laid the foundations and started construction on the 15th day of the earthquake in order to provide our people with safe buildings,” Erdoğan stated.
“In line with our determinations, we are building 650,000 new homes, which include 507,000 houses and 143,000 village houses, in the earthquake zone. We plan to get our cities back on their feet by delivering 319,000 of them within a year.”
President Erdoğan said that in all of his latest visits to the earthquake zone, they ceremonies for brand spanking new residences and village homes in each metropolis. “We have started the construction process of more than 105,000 houses so far. We have laid the foundations of almost half of them,” he stated.
Stating that they don’t seem to be solely constructing homes, that they’re constructing model new residing areas with colleges, well being facilities, markets, inexperienced areas, parks, Erdoğan emphasised that they’ve renewed the infrastructure of not solely the locations destroyed within the earthquake, but in addition all of the cities within the area.
Erdoğan underlined that by establishing small industrial estates, additionally they take into account employment in addition to housing.
“We will complete the biggest housing and urban planning campaign in the history of the Republic,” he stated.
President Erdoğan reminded that they introduced residents along with their new houses in a short while in lots of earlier disasters like earthquakes, floods and fires.
“I hope we will do the same here. (We have) done that in Van, Bingöl, Antalya, Manavgat, Muğla, Kütahya and Simav,” Erdoğan said.
He additionally revealed plans for Istanbul. “We recently announced the good news of a new urban transformation campaign in Istanbul. We presented an offer to our brothers from Istanbul living in risky buildings, half of the cost of the conversion will be covered by us as the state, and the half of it will be very affordable, conditional borrowing,” he stated.
“We aim not to leave any risky buildings in Istanbul in five years by transforming 300,000 residences per year with a study to be carried out, some on-site and some in reserve areas.”
Source: www.dailysabah.com
