Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç Soyer He participated in the Teke Tek program presented by Fatih Altaylı on Habertürk Television. Mayor Soyer announced that they will employ a person in need from the families of those who lost their lives in the earthquake in İzmir Metropolitan Municipality, and that they will also primarily recruit citizens who became disabled due to the earthquake in their disabled staff.
The Mayor of the Metropolitan Municipality, the guest of the One-to-One Special Program broadcast live from Izmir Tunç Soyerexplained the road map that they will follow in the framework of preparations for earthquakes, with rescue and aid efforts after the earthquake disaster in the city. Stating that despite the weight of the bill, he can talk about an earthquake that was easily avoided on behalf of İzmir, Mayor Soyer said, “We accept this as a warning. We must comply with this warning. From now on, this will be our first priority. We will make the expenditure plan of the budget based on earthquakes," he said.
President Soyer stated that as of yesterday, a pool was created under the supervision of the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, engineers and architects from many institutions have gathered and started damage assessment studies, and that the damage assessment of 1238 buildings has been made and that these studies will continue very quickly.
All buildings built before 1999 will be examined
The President, who shared the determination that all the buildings destroyed in the earthquake were licensed between 1992 -1999 Tunç Soyer“As soon as this rush is over, we will have a determination made about all the buildings that were built before 1999, the ground floors of which are commercial houses. We will demand legislation for demolition related to dangerous buildings. Until now, we have always thought about urban transformation in terms of unlicensed areas. However, the destruction in the earthquake we experienced occurred in licensed structures. So we have to break our minds. We will start this work quickly so that our people can lead a safe life. This is not living with anxiety. Our first priority is earthquake. From now on, we will adapt our budget and institutional capacity accordingly. Legislation is needed. We will bring our proposals on this to the agenda," he said.
A new science board
Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç SoyerReminding that he established the Department of Community Health in the first month we were elected, and that he implemented the Department of Earthquake months ago, he noted: “We were already continuing this work. Now we are holding an earthquake workshop next week. First, we aim to reveal the seismicity of İzmir, secondly, to determine the building stock of the buildings for earthquakes, and thirdly, to raise awareness about earthquakes. We are establishing a new scientific committee consisting of civil engineers, architects and geologists. During the pandemic period, we created a crisis executive board. Now we are starting the same study about the earthquake. We don't just rely on our own intellect. We listen to scientists.”
Support from Edirne and Ardahan
Mayor Soyer stated that nearly 1800 tents were set up with the support of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality and other institutions and said, “In the first 53 hours, incredible things were done. With a great mobilization, support comes from our district municipalities and surrounding municipalities. Our Edirne Mayor and Ardahan Mayor were also here today. This is truly an extraordinary spirit of solidarity that relieves our pain. God bless them all. "There is nothing we cannot handle," he said.
Anywhere in Turkey that do the work of 37 different AFAD teams, the first time the debris from under 55 people in Izmir Fire Brigade that the interests of the ACS team representing Soyer, is a question relating to that opened up to construction of the collection area in Izmir, she replied: "Izmir earthquake gathering spaces and We established tent cities at 24 points in green areas. Thank God, İzmir stood firm and determined on this issue in the period before us. The earthquake in Turkey had had a much more serious damage occurs elsewhere. "
A new support campaign
President Soyer thanked the people of İzmir for their extraordinary solidarity and said, “They take their food from their homes and bring them to share. There are extraordinary scenes. I am grateful to the people of Izmir. I am grateful to all those outside of Izmir who are shaken by this pain. I am grateful to the rescuers and mayors who came. I am grateful to the security guards and press members ”.
Mayor Soyer reminded that the people of İzmir showed an exemplary solidarity during the pandemic period and purchased 44 thousand food packages from the People's Bakkalı and that the Metropolitan Municipality delivered these packages to their owners and said, “Now we are starting a campaign again. We saw the support of Izmir's great volunteer people during the pandemic period, and I am sure we will see it again with the earthquake. They can participate in the campaign by coming to the Bizizmir.com page and purchasing aid packages within their power ”.
Employment support for the families of those who lost their lives
Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç Soyer Finally, he wished mercy to those who lost their lives in the earthquake and said: “We will employ a member of the families of the deceased in the municipality if they need them. In addition, we will primarily employ our disabled citizens from the disabled staff.
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