Türkiye on Friday launched its “risk shield” mannequin for constructing new residential properties consolidated in opposition to future disasters after final month’s devastating earthquakes within the nation’s south, the nation’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan introduced.
“We have quickly launched the construction of new houses and living spaces, starting with projects whose ground and feasibility studies have already been completed,” Erdoğan mentioned at a gathering in Istanbul with high-level officers, together with Vice President Fuat Oktay, parliament speaker Mustafa Şentop, Communications Director Fahrettin Altun, and authorities ministers.
The goal of at this time’s assembly is to type the mental foundation of the Turkish National Risk Shield Model, he mentioned, including whereas creating this strategy, all the hazards and threats could be considered underneath the title of the catastrophe that the nation is dealing with.
Once injury assessments are full, the variety of new homes to be constructed within the quakes-hit area will change into clear, Erdoğan added as he addressed the Türkiye National Risk Shield Meeting on the Dolmabahçe Presidential Office.
“While planning new houses, we are turning the direction of our cities from plains towards hills,” he mentioned, underlining that underneath the brand new mannequin, areas with sturdy bedrocks could be most popular as a lot as potential.
“We aim to revive our ancient cities with an understanding that will keep our historical and cultural assets alive and also reinforce them against disaster,” he mentioned.
Reiterating his dedication to not make any concession from the “horizontal architecture” fashion, he mentioned the brand new buildings can be not more than three or 4 tales excessive above the bottom flooring.
“At this moment, we’ve determined 608,000 independent sections in 214,000 buildings that have collapsed or are severely damaged and will be demolished,” Erdoğan mentioned.
Highlighting the nation’s efforts to heal the victims of the quake, Erdoğan mentioned the highly effective tremors had “directly affected nearly 14 million people and led to 3.5 million people to migrate to other cities.”
The victims are being hosted in tents, containers, dormitories, guesthouses, and motels, he mentioned, including that there have been additionally numerous residents “who have gone to their villages or moved into the houses which have either been allocated for them or they themselves have rented in other cities.”
Search and rescue efforts had been adopted by particles elimination efforts, after which is able to come reconstruction and amelioration, he added.
More than 45,000 folks died in Türkiye within the magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 earthquakes on Feb. 6. The earthquakes, which had been centered within the province of Kahramanmaraş, affected greater than 13 million folks throughout 11 provinces, together with Hatay, Adana, Gaziantep, Diyarbakır, Adıyaman, Malatya, Kilis, Osmaniye, Elazığ, and Şanlıurfa.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
