President Erdoğan: We will do our best as a state as quickly as possible, and hopefully we will rise from our ashes again

 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Kastamonu’s Bozkurt, the worst-hit flood area, on Friday.

The president added that he will make an on-the-spot assessment together with Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Adil Karaismailoglu, and Environment and Urbanization Minister Murat Kurum. Necessary steps will be taken after the assessment, he said.

Addressing people in Bozkurt, Erdogan underlined that a total of 4,760 personnel, 19 helicopters, one unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), 66 ambulances, 41 National Medical Rescue Teams, 630 service vehicles, 437 construction machines, and many equipment are operating in the field.

"We have taken all emergency measures (in the flood area) from credit support to tax deferrals," he said.

Erdogan went on to say that 120 teams across three provinces conduct the damage detection works, adding that the state institutions "operate without pause" in the region affected by the disaster.

"We cannot bring back our people who lost their lives, but our state has the power, potential, and determination to compensate for any loss other than that," he added.