Kahramanmaraş and Hatay provinces, the hardest hit provinces, became the centers of reconstruction.
Erdoğan noted that special attention was paid to the housing stock: 433,667 houses and 21,690 jobs have been distributed through lotteries, while the construction of permanent housing has been completed, TRT World wrote.
According to Turkey’s Strategy and Budget Directorate, after three years of intensive work, reconstruction is almost complete, with public services restored in cities, economic activity and social life resumed.
And one of the hardest-hit cities, Hatay, has been “reborn from the ashes like a Phoenix bird.” Here, 24,147 people died and more than 90,000 buildings were razed to the ground. In three years, buildings have been rebuilt, damaged roads restored and historical monuments restored to their original appearance.
In addition to housing, significant funds have been used to rebuild education, health, infrastructure, energy, transportation networks and support employment in the 11 affected provinces.
Turkey has shown strength and cohesion
The president noted that the devastating earthquakes caused $104 billion in direct economic damage and $150 billion in indirect damage to Turkey. Erdogan emphasized that Turkey kept its promise to rebuild cities and showed its strength to the world once again.
He said the cities have not just been rebuilt, but have been given a new impetus for development.
On February 6, 2023, two powerful earthquakes occurred in southeastern Turkey with a magnitude of more than seven points, YeniȘafak recalls. On that day, which went down in history as the “disaster of the century,” the provinces of Kahramanmaraş, Kilis, Diyarbakır, Adana, Osmaniye, Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa, Adıyaman, Malatya, Elazığ and Hatay leveled off. The number of victims of the earthquakes amounted to 53,537 and another 107,213 people were injured. 160 thousand buildings were destroyed.
650 thousand people from different countries of the world took part in liquidation of consequences of the natural disaster.
