Environment, Urban Planning and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum made a statement after the meeting he held at the AFAD Coordination Center, while continuing his investigations in Gaziantep center, which is one of the 10 provinces where the earthquake disaster was experienced, along with its districts and towns and villages. Minister Kurum said, “We are struggling to keep one of our brothers and one of our citizens alive, with a total of 23 thousand 59 search and rescue personnel. 10 buildings in 171 provinces were examined. In these buildings, we have made a damage assessment of 882 million independent sections in total. As of now, we have determined that 1 independent sections in 10 buildings in 24 provinces will be demolished immediately and are heavily damaged. It was determined that 921 thousand 120 independent sections of 940 thousand 10 buildings in 122 provinces were slightly damaged and undamaged. We are a big family, we are a strong nation, we are a big state. We will work together to meet all kinds of needs of our citizens who are earthquake victims. Our field tents and hospitals serve 279 hours a day, 729 days a week. As of now, our 435 tents, our citizens, can clearly learn their findings about their buildings from the 'e-Government' system and the 'hasartespit.csb.gov.tr' address. Our citizens who are slightly damaged and undamaged can enter their homes. It was established in Gaziantep. We will increase this number to 7 thousand. We started to provide water and electricity services in central Şahinbey and Şehitkamil, Nurdağı and İslahiye throughout Gaziantep.” said.
Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum continues his investigations in Gaziantep, which he coordinates after the earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş, which are described as the "disaster of the century".
Murat Kurum, Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, emphasized that since the first moment of the earthquake, all provinces, districts and villages in Gaziantep, with the spirit of full mobilization of the state and the nation, worked and struggled with one heart. Minister Kurum said, "We are fighting this struggle together in the construction of living spaces where our citizens can live their new life in debris areas and shelter areas. As of now, the number of deaths in Gaziantep has reached 85 thousand 3. Within the framework of search and rescue activities, within the framework of the struggle of our teams, AFAD, UMKE, our volunteers, our gendarmerie, our soldiers' security forces and all our brothers, we saved 273 injured citizens from the disaster. We have citizens whose treatments are over, and there are citizens who continue. We also monitor their treatments moment by moment. Once again, I wish God's mercy on all our citizens who lost their lives, my condolences to their relatives, and a speedy recovery to our wounded brothers and citizens.” said.
“We are a big family, we are a strong nation, we are a big state”
Stating that they will work together to meet all kinds of needs of the families of the citizens who lost their lives in the earthquake and the injured, today and in the next period, Minister Kurum said, "We are a very big family, a very strong nation, a very strong state. We try to reflect what needs to be done on the field with the same understanding and consciousness. As Turkey, I hope we will work together to meet all kinds of needs both for the families of our citizens who lost their lives and for the injured, both today and in the future.” said.
“With a total of 23 thousand 59 search and rescue personnel, we are struggling to keep one of our brothers and one of our citizens alive, and we carry out our work with this sensitivity”
Pointing out that the search and rescue efforts continue in the earthquake area, Minister Murat Kurum said, "As of the first minute, we have been carrying out search and rescue activities in 324 buildings, and now, under the leadership of AFAD, we continue our activities intensively with our 36 search and rescue personnel and construction equipment in 3 wrecks. With a total of 354 thousand 23 search and rescue personnel, we are struggling to keep one of our brothers and one citizen alive, and we carry out our work with this sensitivity. Here we reach our citizens at the 59th, 89th and 110th hours. Our Şengül, Ahmet and Mehmet will hold on to life, I hope, with the struggle of our search and rescue teams.” used the phrases.
“Our field tents and hospitals provide service 7 hours a day, 24 days a week. As of now, 18 tents have been set up in Gaziantep. We will increase this number to 868 thousand”
Noting that citizens from 81 provinces of Turkey send all kinds of needs, the Minister Kurum said, “In this context, we carry out our activities with the support of our citizens and our brothers and sisters in disaster areas, both with the means of our state and with the support of our citizens to disaster areas. Our field tents and hospitals serve 7 hours a day, 24 days a week. We are carrying out works to meet the temporary accommodation needs of our citizens in the next period, and our 18 tents have been set up in Gaziantep as of now. In line with the demand and need, we will increase the tent installation up to 868 thousand. Again, in the first stage, we set up 35 containers. We also carry out works to meet the temporary accommodation needs of our citizens here, in line with their needs and demands. Currently, we host 408 thousand citizens across Gaziantep in our social facilities, in the social facilities of our Metropolitan Municipality and our district municipalities, and we try to meet their nutritional and accommodation needs there as well.” said.
“We started to provide water and electricity services in central Şahinbey and Şehitkamil, Nurdağı and İslahiye throughout Gaziantep”
Stating that the work continues to meet all kinds of needs of the citizens, the Minister Kurum said, "Mobile kitchens, soup kitchens, food warehouses, 3 meals a day, again, our meals, while our work to meet their nutritional needs, our gendarmerie, our soldiers, our soldiers, helicopters, in line with the demands of our citizens, in order to provide faster transportation. We continue to provide both nutrition and generator needs from the very first moment. Together with our Iller Bank and Metropolitan Municipality, we are working on all infrastructure. And as of now, we have started to provide water and electricity services in central Şahinbey and Şehitkamil, Nurdağı and İslahiye throughout Gaziantep. In this context, we carry out our work by eliminating the leaks.” said.
Minister Kurum also stated that there were problems with communication at the first time of the disaster, and as of now, they have solved the communication problem in all areas and that the citizens are carrying out the communication process uninterruptedly.
“Within the framework of the investigations, we have determined that, as of now, 24 thousand 921 independent sections in 120 thousand 940 buildings will be demolished immediately and heavily damaged”
Underlining that they carry out intensive damage assessment studies throughout Turkey, the Minister Kurum said, "As of now, we are carrying out our damage assessment studies in 6 provinces with 10 thousand personnel, and 10 buildings in 171 provinces have been examined so far. In these buildings, we have made a damage assessment of 882 million independent sections in total. Within the framework of these investigations, we have determined that 1 independent sections in 24 buildings will be demolished immediately and heavily damaged. I would like to make our warnings once again that our citizens should not enter, sit, or even buy goods in our buildings where damage has not been determined.” said.
“We have determined that 10 thousand 122 independent sections of 279 thousand 729 buildings in 435 provinces are slightly damaged and undamaged”
Emphasizing that with the studies carried out in 10 provinces, they have determined that 122 thousand 279 independent sections in 729 thousand 435 buildings are slightly damaged and undamaged, Minister Kurum said:
“Our citizens living in undamaged and slightly damaged buildings can clearly learn their determinations regarding their buildings from the 'e-Government' system and the 'hasartespit.csb.gov.tr' address. Our citizens who are slightly damaged and undamaged can enter their homes. In this process, their shelter and nutritional needs will be provided outside whenever they want, in line with their demands. However, I would like to express here that there is no harm in our citizens living in the buildings that have been identified, if they live in less damaged or undamaged buildings. So far, 7 houses in 965 buildings in Gaziantep have been identified, and within this framework, we have determined that 19 houses are heavily damaged and demolished. Our citizens are informed about the damage assessment studies and we also give detailed information on what to do according to the damage situation via 'e-government'. In addition, in order to inform our citizens, our citizens can learn the damage assessments from the communication offices both in the center of Gaziantep and in our districts Nurdağı and İslahiye.”
“Our Honorable President declared that we had started the biggest disaster housing mobilization in the history of our Republic”
Stating that the works on new disaster houses are carried out simultaneously in 10 provinces, the Minister Kurum continued his words as follows:
“As our President has stated, we started to deliver our houses in Elazig, Malatya and Izmir within a year in previous disasters; Just as we have completed 1 million 180 thousand houses with our TOKİ and delivered them to our citizens, we will make the best, the most beautiful and the most durable of the disaster houses here. When we look at the houses built in this great disaster we are experiencing today, we see that 95 percent of the destroyed buildings were buildings built between 1999-2000. When you look at the buildings built after 2002, we see that most of them are solid. Here again, I would like to express how important the regulations made in the legislation are. Hopefully, within this framework, our President announced that we started the biggest disaster housing mobilization in the history of the Republic. We are working on our projects and places in 10 provinces. Hopefully, we will start their construction quickly and enable our citizens to access their residences.”
Minister Kurum stated that he thanked the citizens who worked day and night in the disaster, without eating or drinking, and said, "From AFAD, gendarmerie, UMKE, members of the police, our military, our police, our Red Crescent, our Ministry to the 85 million large Turkish families who have not spared their prayers. I would like to express my gratitude to the staff who made the determination. I hope we will evaluate every minute and every second, and I express that I will continue this struggle until the last minute in order to reach our citizens under the rubble.” he said.
“TOBB President Hisarcıklıoğlu and NGO heads also attended”
Meanwhile, after the coordination meeting of the Minister Murat Kurum, the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) President Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu and the heads of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) accompanying him visited.
To Hisarcıklıoğlu, HAK-İŞ President Mahmut Arslan, MEMUR-SEN President Ali Yalçın, TESK President Bendevi Palandöken, TÜRK-İŞ President Ergün Atalay, TİSK President Özgür Burak Akkol, Turkey KAMU-SEN President Önder Kahveci, TOBB Board members and chamber and accompanied by stock market leaders.
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