"We promised to rebuild the destroyed cities again within a year. Soon we will complete the damage assessment. Within one year, we plan to transfer 319 thousand houses to legal residents, and we will build a total of 650 thousand, "TASS quoted him as saying.

According to the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry of Turkey Vahit Kirishci, the damage from earthquakes in Turkey is approximately $ 80 billion.

The search and rescue operation after the earthquakes in Turkey was the largest of all coordinated by the UN.