UN estimates destruction has left 1.5 million people homeless, with 500,000 new homes needed
Facing an election within months, president Tayyip Erdogan has pledged to rebuild homes within a year, although experts have said the authorities should put safety before speed. Some buildings that were meant to withstand tremors crumbled in the latest earthquakes.
“I have eight children. We are living in a tent. There is water on top [of the tent] and the ground is damp. We are asking for more tents and they don’t give them to us,” Melek who was waiting in a line to collect aid outside a high school in the town of Hassa. Mr Erdogan’s government has endured a wave of criticism over both its response to the devastation and what many Turks say were years of non-enforcement of construction quality control.
It said it had requested $113.5 million from the $1 billion in funds appealed for by the United Nations last week, adding that it would focus this money on clearing away mountains of rubble.
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