Banks of tents are being erected in stadiums and shattered city centres, and Mediterranean and Aegean beach resorts outside the quake zone. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ISTANBUL/KAHRAMANMARAS - Turkey is grappling with one of the biggest challenges from the earthquake that flattened a swathe of its towns and cities: how to shelter hundreds of thousands of people left homeless in the middle of winter.
“It’s too dangerous to be inside. When we go in to get things, we go in like thieves,” he told Reuters. In the Aegean resort area of Marmaris, the owner of the Cettia Beach Hotel has opened up his hotel for earthquake survivors. Most of these rooms are in resorts such as Antalya, Alanya, Marmaris, Fethiye, Bodrum as well as İzmir and Cappadocia.Turkish Embassy in S’pore calls for donations of winter clothes, tents for quake victims
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