ISTANBUL, Feb 13 At least 41,000 buildings in 10 Turkey's earthquake-affected provinces are either destroyed or in disrepair, the Ministry of Urban Development and Environment said.
«In 10 affected provinces, we have identified 41,791 buildings that have already collapsed, or need to be demolished urgently, or they are in disrepair,» Minister Murat Kurum said at a briefing in Gaziantep.
According to him, it is planned to complete the assessment of buildings in 10 provinces in a week.
The minister expects construction to begin before the end of February work in 10 provinces.
Earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 with a difference of more than 9 hours occurred on February 6 in southeastern Turkey. According to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, they have become the strongest since 1939, he called them «the catastrophe of the century.» According to the latest data, more than 31 thousand people died. The tremors, followed by hundreds of aftershocks, were felt in 10 provinces of the country and neighboring states, including Syria.