According to AFP on February 3, Turkey will hold a pre-dawn vigil on the 6th to mourn the more than 50,000 people killed in the **. This ** is the deadliest disaster in Turkey in modern times.
According to the report, the grieving Turks are still adjusting to a 7How Level 8** has changed the lives of millions of people who are sleeping in a matter of seconds.
According to the latest data released on the 2nd, a total of 53,537 people died in 11 southeastern provinces officially designated as disaster areas.
"It's been a year, but we still think about it," Chala Demirel, a housewife, told AFP reporters at a container camp for hundreds of thousands of survivors in Antakya, Turkey. ”
The surviving residents of Antakya are scheduled to hold a vigil at 4:17 a.m. on the 6th, when everyone will shout: "Can you hear me? ”
As people searched for their loved ones in the rubble, the cry was once ubiquitous throughout the disaster area.
But it also seems to be a subtle reminder to Erdogan's **leadership**: many in the earthquake zone feel like they have been abandoned.
Analysts at Turkey's Economic Policy Research Institute pointed out that the disaster hit a region plagued by unemployment and underinvestment. People complained that the rescuers were not prepared and were slow to respond. Erdogan retorted.
Erdogan called this ** the "catastrophe of the century", which no country can avoid or quickly overcome. He had also pledged to provide 650,000 new homes within a year.
* The disaster area will have 4 this month60,000 apartments were delivered. The distribution of keys to the first 7,000 apartments in Antakya began on the 3rd. Erdogan said up to 20,000 homes will be delivered each month and 200,000 by the end of the year — not enough to meet his initial promise, but still impressive for a region that has been in chaos after the earthquake.
But for the likes of ice cream vendor Kadir Yenijelli, Erdoğan's words did not bring much comfort. Mr. Yenijelli, 70, said there was a "lost look" about the prospects.
"There is no return to normal. It's still the same, no progress. No job, no money, no income. ”
Erdogan's housing promise was made on the eve of May 2023.
Many voters and analysts point out that Turkey is no better prepared than it was a year ago in the event of another big **.
Mykdat Kadioğlu, a professor of disaster management at Istanbul University of Technology, said: "The country urgently needs to make a transition from crisis management to risk management. There's still a lot to do. (Compiled by Ge Xuelei).