Turkey`s earthquake survivors compelled to move out of accommodations


(MENAFN) Half a year after earthquakes struck southern Turkey, survivors stated that they are being compelled out of housing they were informed they could resign in up untill perpetual homes were established.

Hundreds of thousands of citizens left the 11 tragedy-hit districts for other regions of Turkey following the February 6 quakes murdered at least 50,000 people in the nation.

A lot of them stayed in student residences ruled by the Credit and Hostels Institution, or KYK, an organization of the Ministry of Youth as well as Sports.

Survivors resigning in residences all over Turkey stated that they were informed that they had to departure by the end of last month in what they stated that it is an infidelity of the assurances made.

“There are people who came here again and again – ministers came, [parliamentary] deputies came. They said we would stay here for at least a year,” stated Elif Bingul, an earthquake survivor in her thirties from Hatay who had to live in a residence in Eskisehir, north-west Turkey.

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