Treasury and Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati made a statement after the meeting with NGOs at Hatay Disaster Coordination Center. In reference to the movie ‘Finding Nemo’ by IYI Party Chairman Meral Akşener, “Does anyone know where the Missing Minister Nemo is?” Replying to his words once again, Minister Nebati said, “As a minister in charge of the earthquake zone for 56 days, we have been continuing our work, thankfully. We are not lost. We are on the field. We are with people. Together with our brothers, we were at the head of the wreckage. Together we removed the wreckage. If we are not around, know that we are either sharing the tears by touching the shoulder of an earthquake victim or we are trying to get our belongings together with an earthquake. In order to finance the disaster of the century, we work to relieve our citizens by meeting after meeting and producing solutions after solutions. Unfortunately, we are also dealing with sharks while we are doing this work,” he said.
“As the government, we will continue to show and work with the minimum effort”
Stating that they increased the number of people to be employed in the earthquake area to 50 thousand, especially by giving priority to families in need, Minister Nebati said, “We continue to implement measures that will allow our nation to breathe comfortably, on the one hand, the wounds of the earthquake. Finally, we increased the minimum pension from 5 thousand 500 liras to 7 thousand 500 liras. We have determined the amount of bonuses for retirees during the Eid-al-Fitr and Eid-al-Adha as 2 thousand liras. Our EYT members are also included in these regulations. As the government, we will continue to show and work with the minimum effort until all the wounds are healed in the disaster of the century.
“We also implemented the measures quickly”
Reminding that “our citizens will be able to benefit from urban transformation loans up to 1 million 250 thousand liras with 0.79 interest rate”, Treasury and Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati continued his words as follows:
“In addition to the landlords, it also enables tenants who have been living in a risky structure for at least 1 year to benefit from this loan. We also offer a loan package for the purpose of strengthening the buildings. After the earthquake disaster, as the ministry, we quickly implemented the measures by saying that we support our citizens and real sector. We increased the volume of KGF packages to support our tradesmen in the region. We put new KGF packages into practice. We postponed the loans of our tradesmen and craftsmen in the region. We have launched new loan opportunities with affordable interest rates.”
“We aim to bring the most modern city hospital to Hatay”
“We have completed the installation of a total of 12,500 containers so far, and we have started to lay the foundations of permanent residences,” said Minister Nebati, adding, “We will complete 319 thousand residences and village houses in one year and build a total of 650 thousand residences. The number of residences, workplaces, villages and hospitals, the construction process of which has started throughout our country, has reached 56,323. We have started work on the construction of 3,122 residences in Hatay. We started the construction of our Antakya, İskenderun and Defne State Hospitals. We are not satisfied with this, we aim to provide Hatay with a city hospital with beds and equipped with the most modern technology. On the other hand, we are increasing the limits of the support we provide for the urban transformation of buildings located in risky areas or at risk.”
“As Treasury, we immediately mobilize all kinds of financing opportunities”
Stating that they have made a damage payment of 908 billion liras for a total of 89 thousand 262 files, Minister Nebati said, “The amount of damage paid in Hatay has reached 4.8 billion liras. The number of independent sections in Hatay, which were damaged, damaged or destroyed, to be demolished immediately, severely damaged and moderately damaged, is 333 thousand 825. We are rapidly continuing our work with the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change to ensure the reconstruction and revival of the disaster area. As the Treasury, we mobilize all kinds of financing opportunities immediately. In the first place, we are installing more than 100 thousand containers for our citizens in 11 provinces in the earthquake zone.
“We provide relocation and rental assistance”
Reminding that they made an emergency aid payment of 10 thousand lira per household for approximately 1.7 million earthquake victims in the region, Minister Nebati said, “We have paid a total of 3.5 billion liras of emergency aid support to more than 352,000 households in Hatay. We provide transportation and rental assistance to our citizens who will live outside the container cities. 172 We have made a total of 2.6 billion liras, 15 thousand liras per household, for our 1,262 disaster survivors, and we have made a relocation support payment for them,” he said.