With Syria’s latest announced death toll of 5,914, the combined number of casualties in the two countries rose to above 50,000.
, a government official said on Friday, as the combined death toll in Turkey and Syria surpassed 50,000.in the Feb. 6 earthquakes that killed tens of thousands in Turkey and neighboring Syria.
“For several projects, tenders and contracts have been done. The process is moving very fast,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity, adding there would be no compromise on safety. Men carry children outside a school, where people affected by the deadly earthquake queue for aid in Hatay, Turkey, on Feb. 24, 2023.“I have eight children. We are living in a tent. There is water on top and the ground is damp. We are asking for more tents and they don’t give them to us,” Melek, 67, who was waiting in a line to collect aid outside a high school in the town of Hassa.
The Turkish government’s initial plan now is to build 200,000 apartments and 70,000 village houses at a cost of at least $15 billion, he said. U.S. bank JPMorgan had estimated rebuilding houses and infrastructure will cost $25 billion.
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