Turkey's earthquake rebuild stalls as costs soar past 100 billion dollars.

Hello, and you're listening to the Marketplace Morning Report live from the BBC World Service.

I'm Leana Burren. Thanks so much for joining us.

You know, six months ago yesterday, Southern Turkey was rocked by a pair of devastatingly

powerful earthquakes. And in the immediate aftermath, present receptor type Erdogan vowed to rebuild

the region within one year. But now we're halfway to that deadline and in the Hathay province,

where 23,000 people died and hundreds of thousands were left homeless. Progress has been slow,

and the government has upped its expected expenditure on rebuilding to upwards of 100 billion dollars.

The BBC's Victoria Craig traveled across the province to find out how people are coping.

In the city of Antakia, where residents describe the twin earthquakes as the apocalypse,

it's not the sound of reconstruction that hums in the background of everyday life.

It's the 24-7 sound of rubble removal. Huliya Yashiyolu's five-story apartment is barely

standing now. Bodies are still being found. It's not over. This is the worst place, but it's not over.

I think this place will stay like this for up to 20 years. It won't get better.

Demolition of many buildings hasn't even started, in part because there are disputes about the

triage system the engineers use to determine the extent of building damage. But that doesn't mean

all construction has ground to a halt in the mountainous city of Hussah. New apartment blocks

are rising. They're fully financed by the government and built by an organization within

the environment ministry called Toki. Nurtage Yomaz's construction company has been subcontracted

to complete some of the work. He says it won't be fully finished until next summer.

Just because these constructions are done quickly doesn't mean they are unsafe or not earthquake

resistant. For instance, in 10 different cities before the earthquake, approximately 250,000

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