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The Turkish president assures that he will launch massive housing operations” in the ten affected provinces
8 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced this Wednesday that each family affected by the earthquakes registered on Monday in the south of the country, near the border with Syria, will receive 10,000 Turkish liras (about 500 euros), while has claimed that Ankara will launch “massive housing operations” in the ten affected provinces.
Erdogan, who traveled during the day to the province of Kahramanmaras, the epicenter of the earthquakes, to inspect the search and rescue work and meet with some of the victims, stressed that the activities to build housing will take place “just as happened in other provinces where there were disasters,” Turkey’s state news agency Anatolia reported.
“Our citizens should not worry. We will never allow them to stay on the street,” he said, before stressing that the victims can now stay in various hotels in the provinces of Antalya, Anlanya and Mersin. “We have a significant room capacity (in hotels). If our citizens do not want to stay here in tents, we will find accommodation for them in hotels,” she promised.
Thus, it has affected that “they will be given free accommodation, food and other things there.” “You can help us (accommodate part of the victims in these hotels). Our work will speed up,” he explained, one day after decreeing a state of emergency for three months in the ten affected provinces to try to increase search and subsequent operations. reconstruction.
On the other hand, he has made an appeal “for unity and solidarity” and has asked the population to ignore the “provocateurs”, in reference to the supposed false news about the earthquakes, as reported by the newspaper Turkish ‘Daily Sabah’. “I want our journalists not to allow it,” he stressed, about the publication of possible misinformation.
The president has also emphasized that the authorities “have mobilized all resources” to deal with the consequences of the earthquakes, which have left more than 8,500 dead and nearly 50,000 injured in Turkish territory. According to official data, more than thirteen million people have been affected by the earthquakes, which have also caused the collapse of almost 6,500 buildings.
For its part, the earthquake has left 1,262 dead and 2,285 injured in areas of Syria controlled by the authorities, according to data from the Syrian Ministry of Health, to which must be added more than 1,280 dead and 2,600 injured in areas controlled by the rebels in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo (northwest), according to the Syrian Civil Defense, known as ‘white helmets’, through its Twitter account.
