Turkey will not allow the construction of new homes in areas close to seismically active faults. This was announced on Monday, February 27, by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. at a briefing in the city of Adiyaman.
“We will not allow construction in areas close to faults and in regions with soil liquefaction,” Erdogan assured.
He clarified that it will be forbidden to build high-rise buildings on the site of the destroyed buildings.
“In March we will start construction of 30,000 apartments. New houses will be no more than three or four floors high,” the Turkish president added.
In early February, devastating earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 occurred in the Turkish province of Kahramanmarash in the southeast of the country near the Syrian border. According to the latest data, the death toll in Turkey exceeded 44 thousand people, and in Syria more than 5.8 thousand.
For several weeks, earthquakes were also recorded in different parts of the country, but with a smaller magnitude. In total, there were 10,000 aftershocks in Turkey.
The head of the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Hans Kluge, called the earthquakes the worst natural disaster in the region in the past 100 years. According to him, about 26 million people currently need humanitarian assistance in these two countries.
