Rebuilding After the Earthquakes: New Homes and Ongoing Recovery Efforts
Ömer Bulut
President, Housing and Development Administration (TOKİ)
One-third of Türkiye’s territory lies on an active earthquake fault zone, placing a large majority of the nation’s population lives in areas under serious threat of earthquake. Several Turkish cities are, in fact, among the highest-risk areas for earthquakes worldwide. In the last quarter century, Türkiye endured a series of devastating earthquakes, namely, the 1999…