Destructive earthquakes that fell to the southeast of Turkey in February 2023 caused direct financial damage in the amount of $ 104 billion.
This was stated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The catastrophe of the century caused our country direct financial damage in the amount of $ 104 billion, and the size of indirect damage amounted to $ 150 billion, ”said the Turkish leader, speaking during the program of memory of the earthquakes on February 6 in the southeastern province of Adyyaman. < /p>
The head of state said that by the end of the year, a total of 453 thousand units of housing will be built in the distress zone. He emphasized that all victims of earthquakes will be provided with housing and jobs.
“In just two years, in the zone of the earthquake, we made extensive efforts in reconstruction and restoration, the scale of which is not within the force of almost a single country of the world,” the president said.