HATAY: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday (Feb 20) said Türkiye would build almost 200,000 new homes in the country's southeast region, devastated by a massive earthquake two we
A 7.8-magnitude tremor on Feb 6 and its aftershocks have killed more than 41,000 people in Türkiye and left millions without homes.
He promised reconstruction work would begin in March to build 199,739 homes, including more than 130,000 in the worst-affected provinces of Hatay, Kahramanmaras and Malatya. "We will start to move our citizens living in tents and container cities to their sturdy, safe and comfortable homes within a year," Erdogan added.
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