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Around 14 million folks in Türkiye have been affected by the quakes.
(AA)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pledged to rebuild the nation’s southern area, shaken by highly effective earthquakes that claimed greater than 50,000 lives in early February.
“We will raise our cities in a short time and ensure that our people look to the future with hope,” Erdogan mentioned on Monday after a dinner with lawmakers and earthquake victims within the capital Ankara, a particular iftar fast-breaking meal for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Türkiye plans to assemble sufficient buildings in a yr to fulfill the wants of the quake victims, Erdogan mentioned, including that 319,000 homes could be inbuilt that interval.
“Our citizens whose homes have become unusable are entrusted to us until their permanent residences are delivered to them,” he added.
On Feburary 6, magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 quakes struck 11 Turkish provinces — Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Elazig, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaras, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Sanliurfa.
Around 14 million folks in Türkiye have been affected by the quakes, in addition to many others in northern Syria.
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Source: AA
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