Kayseri Governor Gökmen Çiçek, Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Dr. attended the meeting held at the Provincial AFAD Center at Kayseri Governorship Provincial Disaster and Emergency Directorate. Memduh Büyükkılıç, Deputy Governor Ömer Tekeş, AFAD Kayseri Provincial Director Osman Atsız, Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality Disaster Affairs Department Head Gonca Arın, Fire Department Head Mustafa Metin Kızılkan, Kayseri Provincial Gendarmerie Commander Brigadier General Hakan Dedebağı, Provincial Police Chief Kamil Karabörk, Provincial Health Director Dr. . Mehmet Erşan, Provincial Director of National Education Bahameddin Karaköse, Provincial Director of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Sibel Livdumlu, Provincial Director of Youth and Sports Ali İhsan Kabakcı, Kayseri Provincial Director of Agriculture and Forestry Bülent Saklav and district governors, regional directors and bureaucrats attended.
Reminding that they all gathered together in the said place on the day of the February 6 earthquakes and talked about what to do, Governor Gökmen Çiçek said in his statement at the meeting, "Today, what have we done since that day, what work have we done and what are we doing to prepare our city for the earthquake, what are we going to do, and these are the first things to do." "We are together to plan what we will do during the winter measures," he said.
“IT WAS DECIDED TO ESTABLISH AN AFAD UNION DIRECTORATE IN KAYSERİ”
Governor Çiçek stated that all institutions, organizations and citizens of Kayseri flocked to help in the region during the February 6 earthquakes and said: "Today, we all together know what we can do, what we have done, what we have planned, by taking lessons from our experiences in the earthquake we witnessed in our own city. We are together to consult. There were a number of developments during this period. One of the most pleasing developments for AFAD for us is that it was decided to establish an AFAD Union Directorate in Kayseri, with the work of our Metropolitan Municipality, our MPs, us and the AFAD Directorate. It is very important that this union is in Kayseri. This unit consists of experienced rescuers who will respond to specific disasters. At the same time, the second good news for us is that our AFAD Logistics Building is being built. He will start too. It is also one of the important steps for Kayseri. A lot of work has been done both as an institution and in this process. “As far as I know, we are in good places in terms of rights ownership in cooperation with Çevre-AFAD.”
Çiçek also stated that the Disaster Affairs Department established within Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality will cooperate with them much more.
Metropolitan Mayor Dr. Memduh Büyükkılıç underlined that this study is meaningful and important and said, “I hope that such a study, which we believe is important and meaningful, will yield beneficial results. We have experienced different earthquakes, with the February 6 earthquake as a turning point, but we pray that our Mevla does not let us experience such a disaster that has made a name for itself in the world. "We are aware that every institution must do its part in the context of the studies and evaluations we have made during that process and the measures we need to take afterwards," he said.
Reminding that they have created a separate area for possible disasters, Mayor Büyükkılıç said, "As Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality and the relevant district municipalities, in addition to the previous work we have done in this field, we also took the works that need to be done in the last period into our agenda and created a separate area, especially the Disaster Affairs Department, "We attach importance to cooperation on what should be done in this regard and to do our part in solidarity with institutions and organizations," he said.
