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Resilient Cities In Turkey For Sustainable
Economic Development

Led by the Presidency, the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services, the
Ministry of Environment Urbanization and Climate Change, and the Ministry
of Interior, the Directorate of Disaster and Emergency Management (AFAD)
granted Elazığ 142 million Turkish liras, Malatya 65.5 million Turkish Liras, which
makes 207.5 million Turkish Liras in total. AFAD, which was commissioned to
organize a Humanitarian Aid Campaign by the President’s Office, raised a total
of 111.796.221 Turkish Liras including the SMS donations. The Red Crescent
raised a cash total of 456.740 Turkish Liras. AFAD provided 18.153 people
with some financial aid of 83.714.500 Turkish Liras. The Social Assistance and
Solidarity Foundations granted 14.841.937 Turkish Liras to the people in need,
which made the total donations 98.556.437 (Turkish Ministry of Interior, 2020).
Ministry of Environment Urbanization and Climate Change invited tenders for
23.249 of the 24.537 apartments that had been demolished or heavily damaged
and were planned to be rebuilt. With the investments of 10 billion Turkish
Liras after the Elazığ earthquake, a new city was built and it was announced
that the housing project will be finalized within this year (Turkish Ministry of
Environment Urbanization and Climate Change, 2022a). For the earthquake
victims whose buildings were destroyed or heavily damaged in Malatya city,
Doğanyol, Pütürge, Kale, Battalgaz, and Yeşilyurt districts, a total of 6.991
apartments were built with a total cost of 3,5 billion Turkish Liras. Of these
apartments, 4.626 were disaster struck apartments, 2.286 were built through
urban transformation projects and 79 were built through social projects (Turkish
Ministry of Environment Urbanization and Climate Change, 2022b). In the final
stage, in Elazığ and Malatya 36.000 apartments and offices were built in total,
the investments reaching a total cost of 40 billion Turkish Liras (Turkish Ministry
of Environment Urbanization and Climate Change, 2022c).

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b. Antalya-Muğla Fire –July 28 2021
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The fire that broke out in Antalya on July 28 started in 4 different points.
First seen in Manavgat, the fire spread to Akseki, Gündoğmuş, İbradı and
Alanya. By the time it was taken under control on Aug 6th, the fire had
damaged thousands of hectares of forest land, hundreds of houses, barns,
and warehouses, and killed thousands of forest creatures and animals. The
disaster, which burned over 58 thousand hectare of land, was not only a forest
fire. 3 people were killed due to the fire, and 138 people were effected, 1 of
whom was seriously injured. 320 cattle, 3.000 sheep and goats, 22 banana
greenhouses, 15 vegetable greenhouses, 360 bee hives, and 4.000 acres of
land were destroyed. The fire also caused an energy cut in 35 quarters (Turkish
Ministry of Interior, AFAD, 2021b).

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