{"id":14629,"date":"2023-03-15T16:32:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T16:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=14629"},"modified":"2023-03-15T16:35:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T16:35:55","slug":"flash-floods-kill-at-least-13-in-turkish-quake-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/flash-floods-kill-at-least-13-in-turkish-quake-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash floods kill at least 13 in Turkish quake zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flash floods kill at least 13 in Turkish quake zone. Flash floods killed at least 13 people living in tents and container housing set up across Turkey\u2019s quake-hit region on Wednesday, piling more pressure on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/a> ahead of crunch elections.<\/p>\n

Several more people were swept away by the rushing water, which turned streets into muddy rivers in areas hit by last month\u2019s 7.8-magnitude quake, local media reports said.<\/p>\n

More than 48,000 people died in Turkey and nearly 6,000 in Syria in the February 6 disaster, the region\u2019s deadliest in modern times.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of Turkish quake survivors have been moved into tents and container homes across the disaster region, which covers 11 provinces across Turkey\u2019s southeast.<\/p>\n

Torrential rains hit the area late on Tuesday and the weather service expects them to last until late Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Turkish media said the floods killed 11 people in Sanliurfa, about 30 miles (50 kilometres) north of the Syrian border.<\/p>\n

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Two people also died in nearby Adiyaman, including a one-year-old, the reports said.<\/p>\n

Images showed the waters sweeping away cars and flooding temporary housing set up for earthquake victims.<\/p>\n

The Sanliurfa governor\u2019s office said the flooding also reached the ground floor of one of the region\u2019s main hospitals.<\/p>\n

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Pressure on Erdogan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Facing a difficult re-election on May 14, Erdogan is confronting a furious public backlash over his government\u2019s stuttering response to the biggest natural disaster of his two-decade rule.<\/p>\n

Erdogan has issued several public apologies while also stressing that no nation could have dealt quickly with a disaster of such scale.<\/p>\n

Erdogan has spent the past few weeks touring the region, meeting survivors and promising to rebuild the entire area within a year.<\/p>\n

“By the end of next year, we will build 319,000 houses,” Erdogan told his ruling party members on Wednesday in a parliamentary address.<\/p>\n

“Beyond the search and rescue, emergency aid and temporary shelter we have provided so far, we have a promise to our nation to restore the cities destroyed in the earthquake within a year,” he said.<\/p>\n

Erdogan dispatched his interior minister to the flooded region to oversee the government\u2019s response.<\/p>\n

“Currently, we have 10 teams composed of 163 people doing search and rescue work across a 25-kilometre stretch,” Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told reporters.<\/p>\n

“We also have divers. But the weather conditions are not allowing us to do much,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flash floods kill at least 13 in Turkish quake zone. Flash floods killed at least 13 people living in tents and container housing set up across Turkey\u2019s quake-hit region on Wednesday, piling more pressure on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of crunch elections. Several more people were swept away by the rushing water, which turned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[4918,5411],"class_list":["post-14629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-earthquake","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}