Los damage caused to Turkish industries by the earthquakes of February 6 amount to 9 billion dollarsinformed this Sunday the Minister of Industry and Technologies of Turkey, Mustafa Varank. He specified that some 5 thousand 600 companies than 34 industrial zones in the earthquake zone have suffered considerable damage.
«We estimate the damage in infrastructure, buildings, equipment and product stocks at about 170 billion Turkish liras [unos 9 mil millones de dólares]», declared the minister in a press release.
He also indicated that in the province of Adiyaman, one of those affected by the catastrophe, the damage is estimated at about 367 million dollars.
Earlier, the Turkish Ministry of Finance and Treasury estimated the total damage from the disaster at 2 trillion Turkish liras (about 105 billion dollars).
On February 6, two devastating earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 shook several provinces in southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described what happened as the biggest disaster in the country’s history since 1939, leaving more than 50 thousand dead.
Source: Sputnik World