Written by Ahmed Arafa
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 07:27 PM
Channel confirmed Cairo News In an urgent news to her a while ago, that a 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit the center Turkey.
Earlier, Omar Ahmed, Cairo News correspondent from Ankara, said that the World Bank estimated the direct damage resulting from the earthquake in Turkey at regarding $34.2 billion..
He added, during an intervention on the “Cairo News” screen, that the estimates of the size of the losses in Turkey are divided between urgent and estimates that might go until the restoration of the entire region, not only at the housing level, but also at the commercial level, factories and the human level as well, and perhaps to restart those factories in the region. Commercial enterprises in Turkey for more than 80 billion dollars, and sometimes it reached 100 billion dollars, until those factories return with their strength and labor.
He continued, “We are talking regarding factories that lost manpower, not just equipment, machinery, and infrastructure. There are losses in wealth, labor, and contracts signed in these factories.”
He stressed: “From various European countries or through the United States of America, the United Nations will announce a request for assistance to collect one billion dollars in March, and European countries will organize a donors’ conference for Turkey to help it in its crisis, and until this moment it was not enough to face the losses because Turkey was basically facing an economic crisis.” before this earthquake happened.