Turkey’s sluggish post-earthquake reconstruction
Before elections in the summer, rebuilding was speedy. But it has slowed since then
For ten months Esra Yildirim and her husband Mehmet have been living with their six children in a temporary container home in the town of Elbistan, three hours north of Gaziantep (see map). They share communal bathrooms with dozens of other families and are surviving on money that Mehmet, who is unemployed, borrowed from a bank. They have no idea when they will be able to return to their real home, which was damaged in the huge earthquakes on February 6th that struck southern Turkey and Syria.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Container misery”
Europe November 25th 2023
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