Pak Sahafat – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday night: We are trying to build 6 million and 500 earthquake-resistant residential units.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency from “Anatolia” news agency, Erdogan said these words in a ceremony that was held on the occasion of the beginning of the urban transformation project in the “Heroman Marash” province in the south of Turkey; explained.
He said that the Turkish government has built 3,300,000 residential units within the framework of the civil transformation project in the last 2 decades.
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The 7.6-magnitude earthquake of February 6, 2023 in Turkey and Syria, which killed around 48,000 people in the south of Turkey, in addition to many casualties, has also left heavy financial losses on the economy of these two countries.
News channel T. R. T Turkey announced at the same time that following this earthquake, more than 3.3 million people were forced to move and migrate from their place of residence to another place.
According to the director of the World Bank, the recent earthquake in Turkey has left more than 1 million and 250 thousand residents of 11 provinces of Turkey homeless or damaged their residences.
Although the exact damage of this earthquake, which is referred to as the “disaster of the century”, has not yet been determined; But some economic institutions have announced their estimates of the amount of damage caused by this earthquake and said that the Turkish economy can hardly recover from the damage caused by this event.