A street map is being devised for Istanbul to organize the mega-city for an anticipated high-magnitude earthquake sooner or later, Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Minister Mehmet Özhaseki stated, as efforts to rebuild Türkiye’s southeastern provinces proceed.
After a month of preparation, a street map will likely be submitted to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the transformation of Istanbul, Özhaseki advised Daily Sabah throughout a go to to Turkuvaz Media within the capital Ankara. “There will be a legislative framework as well as a special project to transform Istanbul.”
“There may be no need to wait for the opening of Parliament for the earthquake law. We can call the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye extraordinarily in one or two months and pass a special law for the urban transformation,” the minister underlined.
The metropolis that final suffered heavy injury from earthquakes in 1999 is on edge in gentle of the repeated warnings by specialists concerning the anticipated “big one,” an earthquake with a magnitude of seven.0 or increased.
“Istanbul is one of the most risky metropolises in the world. There are 5.8 million independent entities in Istanbul that include houses and workplaces, 1.5 million of these are at risk. Almost one-fourth of Istanbul is at risk. In case of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, 600,000 buildings would collapse, meaning that two buildings per street would fall down,” Özhaseki identified, indicating that this is able to additionally have an effect on infrastructure and would hinder transportation.
“Many buildings will be built into reserve areas. The 600,000 risky buildings will be moved,” the minister stated.
“Assistance will also be provided in on-site transformation. Before the election, we started a ‘Half of Us’ campaign to demolish and rebuild their buildings. Applications for 1.2 million independent housing entities were submitted, making up 90,000 buildings. Within the scope of that project, we will cover half of the costs. We will demolish and transport the riskiest buildings to the reserve areas, and if there are places lacking in terms of social needs, municipalities will take up the job.”
Within the scope of the transformation efforts, Özhaseki additionally stated that he’s in coordination and met with Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu, inviting the 39 mayors of the province’s districts to the ministry. “Work with them has been continuing in the past 15-20 days.”
Earthquake restoration
On Feb. 6, two 7.7 and seven.6 magnitude quakes struck quite a few Turkish provinces claiming over 50,000 lives. Around 14 million individuals in Türkiye had been affected by the quakes in addition to many 1000’s of others in northern Syria.
“Our primary agenda is the earthquake,” the minister emphasised.
“(Some) 680,000 houses are destroyed as well as 170,000 workplaces, storehouses, barns, haylofts and similar entities, making up 850,000 independent entities in total. It is being said that 11 provinces were hit by the earthquake, yet in fact, 18 provinces were affected and taken into the scope of earthquake recovery,” the minister stated.
Özhaseki elaborated that each On-Site Transformation, in addition to reserve housing areas, are an choice for rebuilding the quake-hit provinces. Those advocating the selection of reserve areas argue {that a} comparable earthquake may occur once more in the identical location whereas others level to the downsides of reserve areas as being too distant from the previous metropolis facilities in addition to from one another. Towns in reserve areas will be kilometers away from the opposite ones. Recently, a legislation was enacted to permit the utilization of areas that misplaced their classification as forests nevertheless, solely a restricted determine is offered.
Özhaseki stated that the tender has been made for 182,000 homes within the reserve areas.
On the opposite facet, individuals additionally desire to rebuild their homes within the areas the place they’ve reminiscences and grew up, which is why many apply to the on-site undertaking.
A large inflow of functions was acquired on the primary day after the announcement of the On-Site Transformation Project, which was launched to offer grants and monetary help to individuals who want to reconstruct their constructions in quake-ravaged areas.
The minister stated that 150,000 individuals utilized for the undertaking. The highest variety of functions are presently in Hatay with over 60,000.
Regarding the causes of why such an enormous variety of buildings collapsed throughout the quake, Özhaseki stated that a number of buildings had been inbuilt a sloppy method, had been of low high quality, missing supplies and in line with engineering calculations of the 80s and 90s, and had been on fault strains whereas most had been constructed in line with rules that had been in observe earlier than 2000. Following the 1999 earthquake that rocked the Marmara area, a brand new regulation was put in place for buildings to be constructed proof against earthquakes of a magnitude of 8.0.
Özhaseki highlighted that buildings is not going to be allowed to be constructed on fault strains or stream beds, the place the bottom is rotten. Engineering calculations and building firms must strictly comply with the regulation.
Erdoğan pledged a swift restoration after the dual earthquakes. According to the most recent authorities assessments, the fee incurred by the earthquake to the nation’s economic system is estimated to be a complete of $104 billion (TL 2.74 trillion).
The president talked about final month that each one the particles had been eliminated. The building of everlasting housing in areas with out earthquake danger was began swiftly. Erdoğan additionally stated that Türkiye will step by step ship the homes beginning this fall and full the development of 319,000 homes inside the first 12 months after the earthquakes.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
