© Reuters. New buildings for earthquake survivors are beneath development in Diyarbakir, Turkey August 26, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer/File Picture
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ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey on Saturday handed over keys to newly-completed properties to a few of these left homeless after final yr’s devastating earthquake, one yr after the nation’s deadliest catastrophe in its trendy historical past.
Highly effective quakes on Feb. 6, 2023 in southern Turkey killed greater than 50,000 individuals in 11 provinces and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
“At the moment, we’re delivering 7,275 homes in Hatay… We are going to regularly ship 40,000 homes all through the area as quickly as their development is accomplished,” President Tayyip Erdogan mentioned throughout a ceremony in Hatay, the province worst-hit by the earthquakes.
Some 75,000 homes might be delivered over the subsequent two months, Erdogan mentioned, including that the federal government deliberate to ship a complete of 200,000 homes this yr.
Round 680,000 properties had been destroyed within the earthquake area, Urbanisation Minister Mehmet Ozhaseki instructed reporters on Friday, including that 390,000 households are registered to obtain homes to be constructed there.
“Tenders for 200,000 flats had been accomplished, and development of a few of them is happening. Some had been completed and deliveries might be made quickly. The tender course of for roughly 100,000 flats continues,” he mentioned.
After the earthquakes, Erdogan promised 319,000 new properties by February 2024 and a complete 680,000 a yr later.