By the end of this year, the Turkish authorities plan to complete the construction of more than 251,000 houses in the south-east of the republic, where devastating earthquakes took place on February 6 2023. In general, the number of housing and infrastructure facilities built within the framework of the region's recovery will be almost 453 thousand, said Turkish Minister of Nature Protection and Urban Development Murad Curum.
"It seems to build a new country in the earthquake zone, by the end of the year, the remaining 251.4 thousand residential buildings, 452.9 thousand buildings will be handed over to our citizens as a regional recovery program," he said.
7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes were felt in 11 Turkish states, almost 34,000 buildings were destroyed, more than $ 200,000 were affected by a natural disaster, and more than 10 people suffered.
"Damage to Turkey from earthquakes amounted to 104 billion dollars or 10% of GDP, forced them to leave their homes and left for other regions, and the" catastrophe of the century "was injured in 14 million people.
