Property damage from earthquakes in southeast Turkey is 2 trillion Turkish lira (over $105 billion). This was reported by the TV channel. TRT News Based on the statement of the Ministry of Finance and the Treasury of the Republic.
The Ministry of Finance said that this amount shows that the damage and losses caused by the February disaster are six times the figures determined in 1999 as a result of the earthquake in the Marmara Sea.
“This figure corresponds to 9 percent of the expected national income for 2023,” the agency said in a statement.
On February 6, two powerful earthquakes with a magnitude of 7.7 and 7.6 occurred in southeast Turkey, tremors devastated neighboring countries, including Syria. Turkish authorities called the earthquake “the disaster of the century”.
On March 13, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu declarationIt was reported that more than 6.6 thousand foreigners, mostly Syrian citizens, lost their lives in the earthquakes that occurred in Turkey. A total of 48,448 people died.