Turkey, Syria mark one-year anniversary of devastating earthquakes
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🗓️ 6 February 2024
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From the BBC World Service: A year after the catastrophic earthquakes that killed more than 50,000, aid agencies are warning that major rebuilding still needs to be done. In the worst hit parts of southern Turkey and northern Syria, businesses are making some progress with some help from the U.S. government. However, Save the Children says one-third of those displaced by the disaster are still homeless.
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| 0:00.0 | Rebuilding a year on from the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria |
| 0:05.8 | hello you're listening to the marketplace morning report live from the BBC |
| 0:09.5 | World Service I'm Leanna Byrne and a very good morning to you. |
| 0:13.0 | A year since a catastrophic earthquake hit southern Turkey and northern Syria, |
| 0:18.0 | killing more than 50,000 people, |
| 0:20.0 | humanitarian organizations are warning that substantial rebuilding work still needs to be done. |
| 0:26.0 | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has invested 1.6 billion dollars in rebuilding projects in Turkey. |
| 0:33.2 | Its chief economist, |
| 0:34.4 | Beyatia Vortchik, told me it's prioritizing projects that help business. |
| 0:39.2 | It's essential to create conditions that would make it as fast as possible for people to rebuild their lives. |
| 0:49.0 | So it's important to bring the infrastructure back online. It's important to create a transport |
| 0:56.4 | networks, the region functions in isolation. So if we want the private sector to flourish there, they need to be able to |
| 1:06.2 | transport goods in and out. And of course it's crucial to support small businesses. |
| 1:12.4 | So by working with our to support small businesses. |
| 1:12.8 | So by working with our partners bank, |
| 1:16.1 | we are helping channel credit to the affected firms and individuals. |
| 1:20.5 | I'm sure it's very difficult though because there's such that sense of urgency to rebuild in Turkey. |
| 1:26.0 | How do you make sure that what's built is sustainable and that it's built to last? |
| 1:31.0 | Well, due diligence and careful planning one of the issues in |
| 1:35.9 | Turkey was the housing permits and it was the residential sector. That's not |
| 1:41.1 | the area where we are very active. |
| 1:44.0 | Turkey, they did have criticism regarding building standards and practices that actually contributed to the earthquake devastation. |
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