The Turkish government has allocated a huge cruise ship to house a number of earthquake-affected people in Hatay province. It contains 400 rooms and can accommodate more than a thousand people. Those responsible for it confirm that it will continue to host the affected families until housing is secured for them.
The attached report for Al Jazeera sheds light on this experience.
Al-Jazeera correspondent met one of the affected women on board the ship, where she recounted some of the horrors of the situation when the earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria occurred on the sixth of February, and the number of its victims so far exceeded 50,000 dead.
And the Turkish Anatolia News Agency highlighted the efforts made by the Turkish authorities to find quick solutions in order to provide housing for its citizens affected by the earthquake disaster in the south of the country.
Housing is an urgent need for people who are living through the catastrophe of violent earthquakes and who have lost their homes, especially in light of the harsh winter conditions;
Therefore, the Turkish authorities resorted to establishing temporary shelters.
Such as camps, prefabricated housing, hotels, rail cars, and ships in coastal states.
In addition to the huge passenger ship "MSC Aurelia", which docked in the port of Iskenderun in Hatay state, another ship will arrive at the same port, according to an official at the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure in Turkey.