Erdogan announced Turkey's plans to eliminate the consequences of earthquakes in a year

“Our goal is to carry out reconstruction operations in Kahramanmarash and nine other provinces within a year,” TASS quoted him as saying.

He also informed that the number of earthquake victims in Turkey exceeded 8.5 thousand.

Seismologist Anna Nikolaeva, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, commented on the situation in Turkey in an interview with Economics Today.