Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an attends opening ceremony in Gaziantep and delivered a speech at an opening ceremony, Azernews reports.

“Today, we are officially inaugurating 99 public investments with a total budget of TL14 billion 100 million and 70 factories, built by the private sector with a total budget of TL15 billion 5 million,” President Erdo?an said.

Noting that at the top of the investments inaugurated today was GAZIRAY (GaziRail), which had a total investment value of TL10 billion and covered a route of 25.5 kilometers, President Erdo?an said: “The GAZIRAY will greatly contribute to the urban transformation in the ever-developing and growing Gaziantep.”

“GAZIANTEP IS THE EPITOME OF UNITY AND SOLIDARITY”

“The progress Gaziantep have made is the epitome of unity and solidarity, our ancestors described as ‘in unity, there is strength’.” Recalling that they inaugurated 300 factories two years ago in Gaziantep, which is one of the leading cities in Türkiye in trade and industry, President Erdo?an said: “Today, we are inaugurating 70 newly-built factories.”

Recall that on 6 February 2023 in the morning in Turkiye there were two earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6. The earthquake, which was 7 kilometres deep, caused serious damage in the provinces of Hatay, Gaziantep, Kilis, Osmaniye, Malatya, Adiyaman, ?anl?urfa, Diyarbak?r, Adana and Kahramanmarash. The number of people killed in the earthquake reached to 50 thousand 783, earthquake destroyed 6,114 buildings in Gaziantep. A total of 25,953 buildings were demolished in the region, of which the number of severely damaged buildings totalled 14,319.

In the first phase, a tender for 25,700 houses for the demolished buildings was held and construction began. On the first anniversary of the earthquake, 11,000 of these houses were built and handed over to the beneficiaries.