Türkiye’s president pledged on Wednesday to rebuild the nation’s southern area, hit final month by highly effective earthquakes that claimed the lives of not less than 48,448 folks.
“We have a promise to our nation to restore our cities, which were destroyed in the earthquake, within a year. We are about to finalize the damage assessment,” Erdoğan mentioned on the Justice and Development (AK) Party’s group assembly in parliament.
Türkiye is planning to construct 319,000 homes in a single 12 months, Erdoğan added.
“Our duty is to appease the hearts, to share the pain, to heal the wounds, to make up for the financial losses, especially the houses,” he mentioned.
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 folks in Türkiye have been affected by the devastating quakes, in addition to many others in northern Syria.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
