March 4 () –
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has assured this Friday that his government will make Turkey the country most prepared for disasters in the world” after the serious consequences of the earthquakes that took place on February 6 on the Turkish-Syrian border. .
Speaking at the closing of a meeting of the National Risk Shield of Turkey, the Turkish president has expressed his gratitude to the scientists who have attended the meeting to share their findings and proposals to improve the country’s resistance to earthquakes, the agency reported. Anatolia.
“We will make the earthquakes of February 6, one of the greatest loss of life and destruction in our history, the beginning of a new milestone in disasters,” Erdogan said, arguing that Turkey will be the country most prepared for disasters in the world.
“Turkey will be able to respond faster and more effectively after disasters, not only with a common mind, but also with a common conscience, a common morality and a common vision,” he added.
In this sense, he referred to the renovation of the stock of buildings destroyed or damaged by the earthquakes, warning that the options for builders to circumvent security protocols this time “have been destroyed”.
For this reason, he has shown his hope that from now on, both the administration, society and the scientific world will be “faster, more practical, more result-oriented”, according to the aforementioned agency.
“I think no one has any doubt that we must act. Turkey has reached the level of seeing the disaster problem as a whole instead of one by one,” Erdogan added, bringing to mind that the country must fight “with many risks at the same time”.
“We cannot separate ourselves from the fires, floods, landslides, terrorism and the refugee crisis. It is imperative that we all fight them together. We see it as a first step towards building a new paradigm in disaster management “, has added.
