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According to the latest weather forecasts of Meteorology, sleet and snowfall are expected in Erzurum, Ağrı, Bitlis and Hakkari. Rain will also be effective in Southeastern Anatolia, around Isparta, in the western districts of Antalya and in the north of Eskişehir. With the weather warnings, all eyes turned to the provinces and districts where schools were closed. Education was suspended in Şanlıurfa and Antalya.
In Şanlıurfa, Çoban Stream overflowed due to the intermittent downpour that started last evening, and the Şanlıurfa-Viranşehir highway was closed as a precaution. Due to the heavy rain in the rural area of Diyarbakır’s Ergani district, the stream overflowed and some houses and barns were flooded. In the landslide in Artvin’s Şavşat district, stones, soil and rock fragments broke off from the slope and flowed onto the road. Flood also hit Antalya, causing great damage.
Education was suspended on Tuesday in 5 districts of Antalya, where the flood disaster occurred. Schools were also closed in Şanlıurfa on Thursday, February 15.
Due to the downpour, Şanlıurfa Governor Hasan Şıldak stated that education in rural neighborhoods throughout the province was suspended for Thursday, February 15, and said, “Due to the excessive rainfall in our city, education was suspended for one day in all our schools in our rural neighborhoods throughout the province on Thursday, February 15. In addition, districts from rural neighborhoods “Our students who move to our schools in the city centers will also be considered on one day off.”
ANOTHER HOLIDAY DECISION HAS BEEN MADE: EDUCATION HAS BEEN SUSPENDED FOR 3 DAYS
Şanlıurfa Haliliye District Governor Serap Çetin, in her statement on the social media platform he said.
WHAT HAPPENED IN ANTALYA?
A general evaluation meeting regarding the flood disaster in Antalya was held under the chairmanship of Governor Hulusi Şahin, with the participation of Antalya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Muhittin Böcek, deputy governors, district governors, AFAD officials and managers of relevant public institutions and organizations. After the meeting, Governor Şahin said that the rain that would have fallen in 3 months fell in 24 hours and in a narrow area, causing floods and floods especially in some neighborhoods of Kepez and Muratpaşa districts.
1 DEAD, 3 INJURED
Reminding that 1 person died in the flood, 3 people were injured and they were discharged, Governor Şahin said, “From the first moment, all the resources of our state were mobilized with the instructions of our President and the close monitoring of our Minister of Internal Affairs. Our Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Münir Karaloğlu, came to our city to coordinate all the work.” “With the support from all public institutions in the center of Antalya and the surrounding provinces, we reached 2,783 personnel, 442 vehicles, 7 boats, 20 sewage trucks and 60 sprinklers. We rushed to the aid of our citizens who were damaged by the flood and flooding,” he said.
FLOOD NOTIFICATIONS EXCEEDED 5 THOUSAND
Stating that more than 5 thousand 300 reports were received to 112, Governor Şahin noted that most of them consisted of floods in houses and workplaces. Şahin said, “Public buildings were also damaged by water. We evacuated water in a total of 2,687 locations, 2,459 by our municipalities and 228 by our AFAD teams. And the water evacuation process was completed as of 21:00 on February 14. Of course, mud accumulated in these residences and workplaces that we evacuated.” “In order to help our citizens with these mud accumulations, we have formed teams, sometimes numbering up to 1500, with support from public institutions, especially our AFAD volunteers, municipalities, gendarmerie, police and all our other stakeholders,” he said.
129 SCHOOLS, 4 DORMITORIES, 32 MOSQUES WERE AFFECTED BY THE FLOOD
Explaining that the cleaning of a total of 983 houses and workplaces is almost completed, Governor Şahin said that new demands are also being considered. Noting that the public buildings Kepez State Hospital, Laboratories at the Training and Research Hospital and a district polyclinic were flooded, Şahin said, “The activities of all of these have returned to normal as of now. Muratpaşa Population Directorate was unable to provide service due to the flood at the first moment, but the problem was resolved and started to provide service on the same day.” continued. 129 of our schools were affected by the flood, we closed the schools for 2 days. As of now, we have resolved the problems of all but 3 of these 129 schools and one hostel. The problem related to transformer burnout continues in three of our schools. Hopefully, we will solve them on Monday. Our schools are open today. There was a problem in 5 KYK dormitories affiliated with our Ministry of Youth and Sports. Our friends solved the problem very quickly. In addition, there were problems in 32 mosques and 24 Quran courses due to floods. Of these, only 3 underground mosques and one Quran course. “The problem continues. Our Mufti staff will train them for Friday prayers,” he said.
66 PEOPLE IN HEAVY DAMAGED BUILDINGS ARE BEING GUESTED IN TSK
Expressing that all problems related to underpasses and traffic have been solved, Governor Şahin stated that the damage assessment team consisting of 360 people is on the field and said, “As of now, we have almost completed the assessments. However, we will complete the evaluation process of the new requests by tomorrow noon. At the same time, damage assessment activities We also do damage assessment for goods and commercial goods. Damage assessment is done by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change according to the structural condition of the building. Our environmental urban planning teams worked on a total of 78 buildings in damage assessment. 54 of our buildings are undamaged, 15 of our buildings are slightly damaged, 7 of our buildings are damaged. Our building was found to be moderately damaged. 2 of our buildings were found to be heavily damaged. It is not possible to reside in medium and heavily damaged buildings. There are 16 families and 66 people in these 2 buildings. We allocated the Karpuz Kaldıran facilities of the Turkish Armed Forces for this purpose. We sent our citizens there “We are hosting,” he said.
1343 DECARE OF AGRICULTURAL AREA WAS FLOODED
Şahin said, “In addition, according to the findings regarding agricultural damage, 299 of our producers had a flood in an area of 1948 decares, 1343 decares of which were covered and 605 decares of which were open. In Aksu and Kepez districts, 10 of our farmers had a total of 7 cattle, 70 sheep, 70 chickens, 10 beehives, 4 thousand “kg of forage, 11 thousand 300 kg of concentrated fodder and one milking machine were lost. Immediately after our findings regarding the agricultural damages, we will apply to our Presidency for compensation for the damages,” he said.
CASH AND IN-KIND AID ARE DISTRIBUTED
Reminding the emergency aid grant of 20 million TL sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Şahin said, “We provided 100 thousand TL cash aid to the family of our deceased citizen. In the first stage, social assistance provided a total of 1 million 70 thousand TL cash aid to 273 families and clothing aid to 86 people. Metropolitan Municipality Our Municipality provided cash and in-kind aid to 1600 families, Kepez Municipality to 349 families, and Muratpaşa Municipality to nearly 1000 families. These aids will continue. After the determinations, we will support the goods aid through our Ministry of Family. There is a certain scale system for aid related to the damages of our workplaces. O “It will be supported by AFAD in accordance with the system. In addition, KOSGEB is preparing support packages. We will make them available to our workplaces,” he said.
Governor Şahin also stated that according to calculations so far, the damage caused by the flood is 300 million TL, and this figure will increase as the work continues.
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