Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presided over a ceremony marking the turnover of no less than 455,000 new housing units built since the 2023 earthquake that left millions homeless. This major accomplishment serves as a lesson for the rapid reconstruction of the Gaza Strip once there is a commitment and resources for the task. This number of housing units would be more than enough to house the 2.1 million residents of the Gaza Strip.
“Today, we are witnessing firsthand a great achievement... that almost no other country in the world could have accomplished,” Erdoğan said at the ceremony held on Dec. 27."We are proud to deliver 455,000th disaster housing units built in the 11 provinces affected by the earthquake, to our brothers,” Erdoğan said. Erdogan said the government rebuilt significant amounts of infrastructure in addition to the housing, whose completion more than fulfilled the government’s pledge to build 453,000 units by the end of 2025.
