One year after the Turkey-Syria earthquake, nearly 700,000 people are still living in temporary housing. Reconstruction of cities is underway in the disaster-stricken areas of Turkey.
President Erdoğan has publicly promised to complete public housing for approximately 320,000 households in the year since the earthquake. People in the affected areas in southern Turkey expressed their concerns about the still uncertain future, as well as their hopes for recovery. The massive earthquake that occurred in southernTurkey on February 6 last year killed more than 59,000.