Half a dozen dump trucks offloaded their potentially hazardous cargo of rubble in a cloud of dust by a roadside in Antakya, Türkiye, one of the cities worst hit by a deadly earthquake.
A man walks among collapsed buildings, a day after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck the region, in the coastal city of Samandag on February 21, 2023. – A 6.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded in Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, the hardest hit by a February 6 tremor which left more than 41,000 dead in the country, the disaster response agency AFAD said.
Police watched on as the rubble-laden trucks trundled along a winding road leading to the ancient citadel that overlooks the city of 400,000 people which is now almost entirely deserted. In Hatay province, the region worst-hit by the February 6 earthquake, the question of how to handle the debris is increasingly taking centre stage.
Clearance operations look set to intensify as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who will seek re-election in May, has pledged to build 200,000 housing units “from scratch” in the eleven provinces rocked by the quake.The scale of the task is daunting, but Erdogan has vowed the rubble will be removed and processed “without harming the environment and the people”.
Koray Dogan Urbarli, a spokesman for Türkiye’s Green Party, said the authorities were only interested in getting “rid of the images that will lose votes for the government”. Asbestos, an insulating and carcinogenic substance which was permitted for use in Türkiye until 2014, is almost certainly present, experts have said.“ can contain many different chemicals like lead or microplastics or asbestos,” said Sedat Gundogdu, a plastic pollution specialist at Cukurova University in Adana.
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