Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke on the supply ceremony for homes that had been constructed for earthquake victims in Hatay.
Erdoğan laid out the following keynotes in his outstanding speech:
“The ache of the lives misplaced within the Kahramanmaraş-centered earthquake a few yr in the past continues to deeply have an effect on us with the identical freshness as on the primary day. I prolong my condolences to the households and the nation for the greater than 53,000 residents we misplaced within the earthquake. I additionally want a speedy restoration to the greater than 107,000 residents injured on this catastrophe.
The earthquake prompted extreme destruction in 11 provinces, 124 districts, and practically 7,000 villages and neighborhoods, immediately affecting 14 million residents. Approximately 26,000 buildings wanted search and rescue operations out of the practically 39,000 collapsed buildings. Additionally, greater than 200,000 severely broken buildings had been encountered. One million tents had been despatched to the earthquake area, over 215,000 containers had been arrange, lease help was offered to 349,000 households, and assist funds had been made for relocation. Great disasters and nice pains are turning factors the place the unity, solidarity, and power of countries are examined. Thanks to the solidarity and resilience of our folks, we efficiently overcame this tragedy and turned the best calamity of the century right into a century of solidarity.
While the state mobilized all its assets immediately, Türkiye united as one coronary heart and one fist, and our folks rushed to the help of the earthquake victims. A complete of 650,000 personnel participated within the intervention efforts within the earthquake zone. Among them, 35,250 search and rescue personnel, together with 11,500 overseas staff members, and 142,000 safety personnel, healthcare employees, miners, foresters, and volunteers deserve our gratitude. Similarly, 20,000 development machines and automobiles, 141 helicopters, 182 plane, and 23 ships contributed to the operations within the area. While 150,000 truckloads of assist supplies had been despatched to the earthquake zone, 20 million meals parcels had been distributed. Meals had been offered to 4 million folks each day. In truth, this catastrophe was additionally the world’s largest search and rescue and restoration operation. We skilled an instance the place each particles removing and reconstruction efforts had been performed on the quickest tempo after a catastrophe. We specific our gratitude to our residents who didn’t go away their houses regardless of the difficulties and took care of their cities, households, jobs, and lands after the earthquake.
As seen, our achievements will not be based mostly on deeds constructed on lies however on actions constructed on reality. This is only the start. Our efforts to rebuild the cities affected by the earthquake will proceed uninterrupted. As development of the 40,000 houses nonetheless underway within the area is accomplished, they are going to be step by step delivered to the beneficiaries. Hopefully, we’ll full the supply of 75,000 houses within the earthquake zone inside two months. Our aim is to convey collectively 15,000-20,000 houses and village homes with their rightful house owners every month within the following interval. Thus, by the top of the yr, we could have delivered 200,000 houses, fulfilling our promise to finish the development inside a yr of laying the muse.
We will be certain that new settlements are constructed and all rightful house owners regain their houses or workplaces by the development of latest residential areas and on-site transformation in Hatay and different earthquake-stricken cities. What did they are saying about Defne Hospital? They stated it did not exist. What occurred? We constructed Defne Hospital. Its opening was personally realized by me, my minister, and the whole staff. We have by no means constructed the reality upon lies. Our residents can relaxation assured about this; they’ll belief their state and us. No one’s rights will likely be left unfulfilled; nobody will likely be left aggrieved. There is not any drawback we can’t overcome with mutual understanding, persistence, effort, and solidarity. We will not be solely constructing houses and companies within the earthquake-stricken cities but additionally rearranging their squares and primary streets in accordance with their historic and cultural constructions. Through our Ministry of Interior, we offer 56 billion Turkish lira in grant assist to our native administrations to revitalize the infrastructure of those cities. Hopefully, the summer time months will move with an entire infrastructure mobilization within the earthquake-stricken cities.
We purpose to show the devastation brought on by the earthquake into a chance for our cities to recuperate and remodel into visionary cities. Because we’ll go away these thousand-year-old lands, our homeland, to our kids to reside for hundreds of years after us. We will contemplate ourselves profitable to the extent that we are able to carry our cities to the long run as settlements with preserved historic and cultural richness and id. Every catastrophe we expertise, each assault we face, and each calamity we encounter reminds us of the significance of our nationwide unity and the power of our state. The best achievement of the primary century of our Republic was the annexation of Hatay to its homeland. In this Century of Türkiye, we’re striving to make each inch of the homeland, together with Hatay, a rustic the place we are able to reside safely, peacefully, and prosperously.
Do we now have troubles, deficiencies? Of course, we do. But thank God, our willpower to achieve the nice and highly effective Türkiye we describe as a single nation, single flag, single homeland, and single state surpasses all of them. Our nation’s potential, alternative, and power are ample for us to achieve this aim. All we want is to tighten our ranks and work collectively in unity and solidarity. Especially with the breakthroughs of the final 21 years, Türkiye has made important progress in turning into a regional and international energy politically, economically, and militarily. Now, by additional creating this, we’re within the means of together with our nation among the many world’s high 10 strongest nations. As we try in direction of our objectives, we’re decided to remove one potential risk after one other, together with earthquakes, terrorist assaults, and financial traps.
Today, I need to share with you the testomony entrusted to our nation by Alev Alatlı, who we buried on the age of 79. The solar doesn’t rise on daily basis to a extra excellent world. History is just not a linear line from eternity to eternity; it’s a periodic transportation. There will likely be days when the one farthest behind will likely be forward. Strengthen your fortifications. Turn tough instances into alternatives. If you need to liken our expensive nation to one thing, liken it to a wild blackberry bush that sheds from each department. See that whereas one department is sprouting, one other is defending, and yet one more is bearing fruit. Do not dwell on a single department. Get used to trying on the entire. Remember that it can’t be understood with straight intelligence, it doesn’t come to compass or rule, Türkiye has a novel id. Since we’re the final representatives of a civilization that have to be preserved for the great of the planet. May God have mercy on her. We attended the funeral prayer. And we bought permission from her household. That’s why we had been delayed. May God have mercy on her, could her place be paradise.
Our 1000’s of years of civilization will proceed till the top of time with God’s permission. Especially in Hatay and throughout our nation, we’ll proceed our battle on this blessed path with our sweat, labor, and, when obligatory, our lives. Neither earthquakes nor terrorism, neither lowlifes who check our borders and persistence nor imperialists’ soiled ambitions can deter us from this path. Remember, we’ll stroll this path collectively and attain our objectives collectively. I congratulate as soon as once more the residents who’ve discovered houses by the lottery. I want that the Hatay Training and Research Hospital and the İskenderun State Hospital, whose opening we’ll carry out, will likely be useful to our metropolis. I want that the upcoming March 31 elections, together with all its districts, will likely be auspicious for Hatay.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr
