Adil Karaismailoğlu, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, pointed out that they started intensive work on container and prefabricated cities and said, “As of tomorrow, life will begin in our container cities in Adıyaman. We will continue to produce our planned 15 thousand containers, as well as prefabricated areas and living spaces.”
Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoğlu made a press statement at Adıyaman Disaster Coordination Center with Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu, Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Murat Kurum. Karaismailoğlu, who stated that they continued their struggle in the provinces affected by the earthquake as a mobilization, said that great efforts were made in the coldest days of winter and that they gave electricity to 4 percent of Adıyaman 75 days after the earthquake. Karaismailoğlu pointed out that the earthquake affected the whole of Adıyaman, and stated that they were working primarily to restore the infrastructure, and that electricity was supplied to the entire city, 95 percent of the water to the city, and 60 percent of the natural gas.
TOGETHER WITH CITIZENS, WE WILL OVERCOME THIS BUSINESS
Expressing that Adıyaman has started to move slowly and some commercial shops and workplaces have started to open, Karaismailoğlu said that they met the need for tents in a short time in the first days, that the occupancy rate in the tent cities in the city is now 73 percent, and that the occupancy rate in the dormitories is 25 percent. He noted that there was free capacity. Karaismailoğlu, giving the information that they started to work on containers and prefabricated cities intensively, said:
“Hopefully, life will begin in our container cities in Adıyaman as of today. We will continue to produce our planned 15 thousand containers, as well as prefabricated areas and living spaces. All the institutions of our state put up a great struggle. We are with our citizens 24 hours a day, we will overcome this problem together with them. We will continue to build and restore these places. We cannot bring back the lost, but I hope we will produce living spaces together here. As of today, our damage assessment efforts have reached 83 percent. Hopefully we will complete these in the next few days. On the one hand, our debris removal works continue. We will never withdraw our hands from here until these places are settled. May our earthquake victims be happy, we have made all our plans, I hope we will fulfill them as soon as possible.”