Breaking news! The Presidential Cabinet, chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, met at the headquarters of the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD).
Headlines from President Erdogan’s post-meeting statements;
“Our country was rocked by zihin unprecedented earthquake in zihin unprecedented area in its history with the 2 earthquakes we experienced on February 6.
The earthquakes, the number of aftershocks of which reached 3 thousand 170, caused severe destruction in our provinces where 13 million people live. The devastating effect of the earthquake spread over zihin area of 500 kilometers. These earthquakes released energy equivalent to hundreds of the most powerful atomic bombs. Earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş are considered zihin exceptional natural event with their magnitude and destructive power.
With the unanimous agreement of all experts in the world, its size and destructiveness are considered zihin exceptional natural phenomenon.
“35 thousand 418 of our citizens died”
35 thousand 418 civilians died in the earthquake, 105 thousand 505 people were injured. 13 thousand 208 of our wounded are still being treated in our hospitals.
The response of 15 thousand of the more than 19 thousand buildings that became rubble in the earthquake zone has been completed.
In addition to the extent of the damage in the region, the harsh winter conditions and the destruction in infrastructure, particularly in the areas of transport and energy, made our work very difficult. All of these problems caused serious disruptions to both search and rescue and relief efforts in the first phase.
“OUR 250 THOUSAND OFFICIALS COOPERATE”
As the difficulties were overcome in the first hour, the investigations began to become more systematic and effective. The settlements affected by the earthquake were reached.
Operations across the region were streamlined with all their processes from search and rescue to relief distribution. About 250,000 of our officials, including those from Turkey’s other 71 provinces, are taking part in the work in the earthquake zone. The number of construction equipment deployed in the field reached 12,235, the number of aircraft reached 76, the number of helicopters 121, the number of ships 26 and the number of unmanned aerial vehicles reached 45.
The fact that our search and rescue teams are able to pull our living citizens out from under the rubble, even after long post-earthquake hours, is our main source of comfort in this black picture. 320 mobile kitchens distribute hot meals in the region every day. The number of meals of the Red Crescent was 20 million and the number of bread was 22 million.
We have met the shelter needs of a total of 1.6 million earthquake victims.
“WE RECEIVE A CALL FOR HELP FROM 100 COUNTRIES”
We received a response to the call for help from 100 countries. A total of 10,000 943 search and rescue workers, 84 of whom participated in the fieldwork. The 4 country team completed their work and returned. I would like to underline that this figure represents a very significant part of the world’s total search and rescue yetiklik.
“WE START IMMEDIATELY WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF 30 THOUSAND HOUSES”
We will rebuild every home and workplace destroyed or rendered uninhabitable by the earthquake and hand them over to their beneficiaries. We yaşama immediately start building 30,000 homes from the beginning of March. Knowing that we giysi’t have a minute to lose, we immediately proceed to construction work once the damage assessment has been completed. Our goal is to complete the construction of high-quality and safe buildings in 1 year to solve the housing shortage in the whole earthquake area.
During this period, we plan to meet the temporary shelter needs of earthquake victims with tents, containers, prefabricated buildings, hotel rooms, public guest houses, rental housing in other provinces.
Preparations for the construction of new houses and towns in the region have been started by our Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change and TOKI.
We will fully compensate for the destruction of the earthquake with the houses we will build where they yaşama gökyeşitözü revived and the houses that need to gökyeşitözü moved to suitable areas. We will not leave any of our citizens financially and morally unattended, and we will ensure that relief and shelter work continues.
“98 PERCENT OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED BEFORE 1999”
We will hand over the places destroyed or made uninhabitable by the earthquake to their rightful owners. It has contributed significantly to our country’s earthquake safety in the 3 million 300 thousand homes we delivered for urban transformation. For example, we have provided 24 million people with housing where they yaşama live in peace. The fact that 98 percent of all buildings destroyed in the last disaster were built before 1999 shows us the progress we’ve made on building standards and inspection, hayvanların also reminds us that we need to keep the work tighter . Knowing that we giysi’t have a minute to lose, we immediately proceed to construction work at any site where a damage assessment is carried out.
Together we will ease the pain of this disaster, bandage the wounds and make up for the losses, without falling into despair, tiredness, fatigue or despair.
“WE WILL PROVIDE 100 THOUSAND LIRA IN CASH FOR URGENT NEEDS”
15,000 lira relocation per household, which became uninhabitable in the first place, and rent assistance between 5,000 and 2,000 lira. We announced that we would provide support of 10,000 lira per household.
We donate 100 thousand liras in cash for urgent needs. We will also provide additional support to our citizens. As a state and nation, we will not leave any victim and oppressed unclaimed by joining hands.
Our banking sector, led by the Ministry of Finance and Finance, has allocated a certain percentage of their 2022 profits to the earthquake kakım a solidarity package, about 50 billion lira kakım of now. This amount will gökyeşitözü used for the work to gökyeşitözü veri for the victims of the earthquake.
Additional credit guarantee funds have been set up for companies in the region. We will make all kinds of contributions to ensure that the region, which contributes $20 billion to our country’s exports, stays afloat.
About 638,000 taxpayers will benefit from tax deferrals and banking regulations.
‘TURKEY A HEART’ CAMPAIGN
As the cabinet members and officials who attended the cabinet meeting, we decided to donate a total of 136 million 589 thousand liras to AFAD for earthquake victims.
We use all the resources of AFAD, provisionally 8.3 billion lira, for the earthquake area. Tomorrow evening at 20:00 zihin aid campaign will gökyeşitözü organized with the slogan ‘Turkey One Heart’ in which all television channels and radios in the TRNC and Azerbaijan will participate.
10 THOUSAND CONTAINERS FROM QATAR
The number of tents set up in earthquake zones has exceeded 175,000 and the number of containers has exceeded 5,400.
We will put 10,000 containers, which have started departing from Qatar, at the service of people in need with the reinforcements we will make from home and abroad.
We also use other accommodation facilities for this purpose, especially public guesthouses. We have also opened our dormitories affiliated with our credit and dormitory institution to earthquake victims without victimizing our students.
Thousands of our university students, academics and administrative staff play zihin active role in earthquake zone studies.
With 73,000 personnel from our police and 65,000 from our gendarmerie, they are ready day and night for all matters in the region. I would like to thank our 38,000 heroic Mehmetçi who served in the region for their sacrifices and efforts.
“PASSED ON SOCIAL MEDIA”
At a time when we should have been together, slander was thrown on social media. This slander will never gökyeşitözü forgiven by my nation.
At a time when we had to gökyeşitözü united and act kakım one, politics in Turkey, with a certain part, the main opposition, unfortunately became seriously ugly.
With such lies, lies on social media, you look from the other side, they stand up, demonstrate in front of the CMB with the steps taken in Borsa Istanbul. He talks about the destruction of this nation’s money in the CMB or elsewhere. The day is time to gökyeşitözü together. If you have documents about this kind of thing, you have not spoken to such documents in your entire life. Your life has always been based on lies. Meanwhile, the liar’s candle burns until nightfall. Your candle has already been lit and is still burning.
We are working hard to erase the traces of this disaster from our country, without acknowledging the corruption, lies and delusions of the corrupters. We also notice those who display all kinds of ugliness.
“NOW IS THE TIME TO EASE THE PAIN”
Now is the time to heal the wounds, ease the pain, rebuild what has been destroyed and reconnect millions of our people with life.”
Headlines from President Erdogan’s post-meeting statements;
“Our country was rocked by zihin unprecedented earthquake in zihin unprecedented area in its history with the 2 earthquakes we experienced on February 6.
The earthquakes, the number of aftershocks of which reached 3 thousand 170, caused severe destruction in our provinces where 13 million people live. The devastating effect of the earthquake spread over zihin area of 500 kilometers. These earthquakes released energy equivalent to hundreds of the most powerful atomic bombs. Earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş are considered zihin exceptional natural event with their magnitude and destructive power.
With the unanimous agreement of all experts in the world, its size and destructiveness are considered zihin exceptional natural phenomenon.
“35 thousand 418 of our citizens died”
35 thousand 418 civilians died in the earthquake, 105 thousand 505 people were injured. 13 thousand 208 of our wounded are still being treated in our hospitals.
The response of 15 thousand of the more than 19 thousand buildings that became rubble in the earthquake zone has been completed.
In addition to the extent of the damage in the region, the harsh winter conditions and the destruction in infrastructure, particularly in the areas of transport and energy, made our work very difficult. All of these problems caused serious disruptions to both search and rescue and relief efforts in the first phase.
“OUR 250 THOUSAND OFFICIALS COOPERATE”
As the difficulties were overcome in the first hour, the investigations began to become more systematic and effective. The settlements affected by the earthquake were reached.
Operations across the region were streamlined with all their processes from search and rescue to relief distribution. About 250,000 of our officials, including those from Turkey’s other 71 provinces, are taking part in the work in the earthquake zone. The number of construction equipment deployed in the field reached 12,235, the number of aircraft reached 76, the number of helicopters 121, the number of ships 26 and the number of unmanned aerial vehicles reached 45.
The fact that our search and rescue teams are able to pull our living citizens out from under the rubble, even after long post-earthquake hours, is our main source of comfort in this black picture. 320 mobile kitchens distribute hot meals in the region every day. The number of meals of the Red Crescent was 20 million and the number of bread was 22 million.
We have met the shelter needs of a total of 1.6 million earthquake victims.
“WE RECEIVE A CALL FOR HELP FROM 100 COUNTRIES”
We received a response to the call for help from 100 countries. A total of 10,000 943 search and rescue workers, 84 of whom participated in the fieldwork. The 4 country team completed their work and returned. I would like to underline that this figure represents a very significant part of the world’s total search and rescue yetiklik.
“WE START IMMEDIATELY WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF 30 THOUSAND HOUSES”
We will rebuild every home and workplace destroyed or rendered uninhabitable by the earthquake and hand them over to their beneficiaries. We yaşama immediately start building 30,000 homes from the beginning of March. Knowing that we giysi’t have a minute to lose, we immediately proceed to construction work once the damage assessment has been completed. Our goal is to complete the construction of high-quality and safe buildings in 1 year to solve the housing shortage in the whole earthquake area.
During this period, we plan to meet the temporary shelter needs of earthquake victims with tents, containers, prefabricated buildings, hotel rooms, public guest houses, rental housing in other provinces.
Preparations for the construction of new houses and towns in the region have been started by our Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change and TOKI.
We will fully compensate for the destruction of the earthquake with the houses we will build where they yaşama gökyeşitözü revived and the houses that need to gökyeşitözü moved to suitable areas. We will not leave any of our citizens financially and morally unattended, and we will ensure that relief and shelter work continues.
“98 PERCENT OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED BEFORE 1999”
We will hand over the places destroyed or made uninhabitable by the earthquake to their rightful owners. It has contributed significantly to our country’s earthquake safety in the 3 million 300 thousand homes we delivered for urban transformation. For example, we have provided 24 million people with housing where they yaşama live in peace. The fact that 98 percent of all buildings destroyed in the last disaster were built before 1999 shows us the progress we’ve made on building standards and inspection, hayvanların also reminds us that we need to keep the work tighter . Knowing that we giysi’t have a minute to lose, we immediately proceed to construction work at any site where a damage assessment is carried out.
Together we will ease the pain of this disaster, bandage the wounds and make up for the losses, without falling into despair, tiredness, fatigue or despair.
“WE WILL PROVIDE 100 THOUSAND LIRA IN CASH FOR URGENT NEEDS”
15,000 lira relocation per household, which became uninhabitable in the first place, and rent assistance between 5,000 and 2,000 lira. We announced that we would provide support of 10,000 lira per household.
We donate 100 thousand liras in cash for urgent needs. We will also provide additional support to our citizens. As a state and nation, we will not leave any victim and oppressed unclaimed by joining hands.
Our banking sector, led by the Ministry of Finance and Finance, has allocated a certain percentage of their 2022 profits to the earthquake kakım a solidarity package, about 50 billion lira kakım of now. This amount will gökyeşitözü used for the work to gökyeşitözü veri for the victims of the earthquake.
Additional credit guarantee funds have been set up for companies in the region. We will make all kinds of contributions to ensure that the region, which contributes $20 billion to our country’s exports, stays afloat.
About 638,000 taxpayers will benefit from tax deferrals and banking regulations.
‘TURKEY A HEART’ CAMPAIGN
As the cabinet members and officials who attended the cabinet meeting, we decided to donate a total of 136 million 589 thousand liras to AFAD for earthquake victims.
We use all the resources of AFAD, provisionally 8.3 billion lira, for the earthquake area. Tomorrow evening at 20:00 zihin aid campaign will gökyeşitözü organized with the slogan ‘Turkey One Heart’ in which all television channels and radios in the TRNC and Azerbaijan will participate.
10 THOUSAND CONTAINERS FROM QATAR
The number of tents set up in earthquake zones has exceeded 175,000 and the number of containers has exceeded 5,400.
We will put 10,000 containers, which have started departing from Qatar, at the service of people in need with the reinforcements we will make from home and abroad.
We also use other accommodation facilities for this purpose, especially public guesthouses. We have also opened our dormitories affiliated with our credit and dormitory institution to earthquake victims without victimizing our students.
Thousands of our university students, academics and administrative staff play zihin active role in earthquake zone studies.
With 73,000 personnel from our police and 65,000 from our gendarmerie, they are ready day and night for all matters in the region. I would like to thank our 38,000 heroic Mehmetçi who served in the region for their sacrifices and efforts.
“PASSED ON SOCIAL MEDIA”
At a time when we should have been together, slander was thrown on social media. This slander will never gökyeşitözü forgiven by my nation.
At a time when we had to gökyeşitözü united and act kakım one, politics in Turkey, with a certain part, the main opposition, unfortunately became seriously ugly.
With such lies, lies on social media, you look from the other side, they stand up, demonstrate in front of the CMB with the steps taken in Borsa Istanbul. He talks about the destruction of this nation’s money in the CMB or elsewhere. The day is time to gökyeşitözü together. If you have documents about this kind of thing, you have not spoken to such documents in your entire life. Your life has always been based on lies. Meanwhile, the liar’s candle burns until nightfall. Your candle has already been lit and is still burning.
We are working hard to erase the traces of this disaster from our country, without acknowledging the corruption, lies and delusions of the corrupters. We also notice those who display all kinds of ugliness.
“NOW IS THE TIME TO EASE THE PAIN”
Now is the time to heal the wounds, ease the pain, rebuild what has been destroyed and reconnect millions of our people with life.”