On February 3, local time, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the great congresses of Turkey and Syria, Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the delivery ceremony of the first batch of more than 7,000 reconstructed houses in Antakya City, Hatay Province, the hardest-hit area.
Today, we have delivered 7,275 housing units in Hatay province. Erdogan said at the delivery ceremony that a total of 460,000 homes. **A total of 200,000 reconstructed housing units are planned to be delivered this year.
March 6, 2023, Antakya, after the big **.
On February 6, 2023, there was a strong ** in southern Turkey near the border with Syria. According to official figures, more than 50,000 people have died in Turkey and a large number of buildings have been destroyed. Antakya was one of the hardest hit cities in this campaign. Erdogan pledged shortly after the earthquake to build 31 by February 202490,000 new homes, and a total of 680,000 built a year later. AFP commented on the 4th that the above figures are smaller than the number of rebuilt houses that Erdogan promised before, but the scale of delivery is still considerable.
Turkey's Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, Mohammad Ozhaseki, told reporters on the 2nd that about 680,000 houses in the disaster area have been destroyed, and 390,000 families have registered in need of housing. "The tender for 200,000 apartments has been completed, some of which are under construction and some are completed and will be delivered soon," he said. The tender process for about 100,000 apartments is still ongoing. ”
The city of Kahramanmaraş in the southern Turkish province of Kahramanmaraş was also badly damaged in **. Kadir Yenijelli, a 70-year-old victim of the disaster, told AFP that people are still "confused" about what will happen next. "Nothing is back to normal......Lack of jobs, lack of capital, lack of income. ”
*: CCTV news client.