Türkiye holds 2nd meeting of national risk shield model against future disasters

Türkiye holds 2nd meeting of national risk shield model against future disasters

Turkish officers held the second assembly of the nation’s nationwide “risk shield” mannequin on Friday, every week after the plan to construct new disaster-resistant houses within the nation’s quake-hit south was introduced.

The assembly befell in Gaziantep, one of many 11 provinces hit worst by highly effective back-to-back earthquakes final month, on the native directorate of the nation’s catastrophe company AFAD, with Environment, Urbanization, and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum on the helm.

Speaking after the assembly, Kurum stated that as a part of the mannequin, specialists, scientists, and teachers are conducting analysis on post-disaster administration, the development of resilient cities with insurance policies to be adopted within the rebuilding course of, and catastrophe threat administration.

Working teams that embrace specialists and bureaucrats from varied fields have been shaped within the second assembly.

“We will protect the nature and environment of cities with an understanding that will protect their history, culture, and demographic structures here. We will make it resistant to climate change, and we will do our work with an understanding that can make it resistant to disasters,” stated Kurum.

“We will act by preserving the unique structure, unique identity, architecture, and values of each city,” he added.

Meanwhile, a proposal for the formation of a catastrophe reconstruction fund was adopted by the parliament’s Planning and Budget Committee on Thursday.

More than 47,000 individuals have been killed in Türkiye by earthquakes that struck on Feb. 6, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated on Friday.

The magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 quakes, centered in Kahramanmaraş, rocked 11 provinces, together with Adana, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, Elazığ, and Şanlıurfa.

Around 14 million individuals in Türkiye have been affected, in addition to many others in northwestern Syria.

Source: www.anews.com.tr