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President Erdogan announced the construction of 200,000 houses after the earthquakes

Homelessness is one of the biggest problems affecting southern Turkey.

The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced this Monday the construction of some 200,000 homes starting in March in eleven provinces of that country, in an attempt to deal with the consequences of the earthquakes registered on February 6 and which left a balance of more than 41,000 deaths in the south of the country.

Erdogan, who lamented the severity of the impact of the quakes and drew parallels with historical events that wreaked havoc in Turkey’s eastern Anatolia province.

“With courage, faith and patience, we have weathered numerous political and social ups and downs over the centuries, like the crusades and the mongol invasions” asserted the Turkish head of state, according to information from the Anatolia news agency reproduced by Europa Press.

In this regard, he specified that it is planned to build 199,739 new houses in eleven provincesamong which are Hatay and Karamanmaras, the most affected by the earthquakes.

In addition, the Turkish president considered that “the mentality that is contrary to the urban transformation and the TOKI (Public Housing Administration, an agency of the Ministry of Urbanism and Environment) projects will be set aside.”

“We will never compromise the scientific principles or the strength of the structures in the buildings that will be built in the earthquake zone,” he pointed out before explaining that houses will be built in the cities of Malatya, Osmaniye, Diyarbakir, Sanliurfa and Elazig, in addition to Adana, Kilis, Hatay, Kahramanmaras, Adiyaman and Gaziantep.

In the midst of these advertisements, An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 occurred this Monday in the province of Hatay, in the south of the country, which represents the strongest aftershock after the devastating earthquakes of February 6, indicated the Turkish emergency agency AFAD.

The tremor, whose epicenter was located in the town of Defne, a district located about fifteen minutes by car from Antakya, occurred at 8:04 p.m. (2:04 p.m. Argentine time) and was felt in Antakya and Adana, 200 kilometers north of this city. .

According to Afad, More than 6,000 aftershocks have already been recorded since the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that devastated southern Turkey and Syria.

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