Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Tuesday pledged to quickly announce numerous initiatives that can additional improve Turkish military’s power on land, air, and sea.
“We are at the stage of making our defense industry projects — which we are carrying out with care, diligence, and resolve — complement our political and economic strengths,” Erdoğan mentioned at an iftar dinner with Turkish military’s humanitarian support brigade in Ankara.
Erdoğan mentioned the Turkish military is making historical past with its successes “from border security to counter-terrorism efforts, from international missions to humanitarian aid activities,” and they’re reconstructing the quake-hit areas in accordance with the realities of the area.
On Feb. 6, the magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 quakes struck 11 provinces — Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Elazig, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaras, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Sanliurfa.
More than 13.5 million individuals in Türkiye have been affected by the devastating quakes, in addition to many others in northern Syria.
“We have provided 3.3 million families with safe and peaceful homes with our urban transformation projects and another 1.2 million families with TOKI (the country’s housing development administration) houses. We are renovating our public buildings at the same time in a planned manner,” the president added.
Erdoğan additional recalled the political and humanitarian threats surrounding Türkiye, including that “political crises, conflicts, wars, tensions” are by no means absent and immediately have an effect on the area Türkiye is positioned in.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
