The UN estimated this Tuesday that more than 100,000 million dollars (about 94,000 million euros) will be needed to rebuild the areas of Turkey that were affected by several earthquakes in February.
This estimate is based on a joint assessment by the United Nations, the World Bank, the European Union and the Government of Turkey, said the United Nations Development Program representative for Turkey, Louisa Vinton.
The amount does not include funding for the reconstruction of cities in northern Syria, which were also devastated by the natural disaster and where the delivery of humanitarian aid is more difficult for logistical and security reasons.
A month after the quake, which killed some 46,000 people in Turkey alone, “it is already clear that material damage will cost more than $100 billion” to recover, he said.
On February 6, two earthquakes measuring 7.7 and 7.6 on the Richter scale struck Turkey and northern Syria, followed by several aftershocks, which destroyed thousands of homes in places where millions of people lived.
The UN estimates that at least 6,000 people in Syria have been killed by the earthquakes and that more than 8 million are in urgent need of help, including 4.1 million people in opposition-controlled areas in the north of the country and 4 million people in controlled areas. for the goverment.
Since the tragedy, 2.7 million people have been forced to leave their homes because they were destroyed or badly damaged.
Source: TSF
