Erdogan approves agreement on Azerbaijan's construction of houses in Kahramanmarash

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has approved an agreement providing for the construction of residential houses and social infrastructure facilities in Kahramanmarash by the Azerbaijani government.

The decision was published in Resmi Gazete, APA reports.

A devastating earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 struck Türkiye on February 6. The earthquake with an epicenter in the Pazardzhik district of the Kahramanmarash province lay at a depth of 7 kilometers. As a result of the earthquake, serious damage occurred in the provinces of Hatay, Gaziantep, Kilis, Osmaniye, Malatya, Adiyaman, Urfa, Diyarbekir, Adana and Kahramanmarash. Several more strong earthquakes occurred in the territory of Türkiye after that.

Azerbaijan was the first country to send aid to Türkiye after the devastating February earthquake.

On October 3, Farman Gurbanli, Chief of Staff of Azerbaijan's State Housing Construction Agency announced that an "Azerbaijani block" will be built in the Kahramanmarash province of Türkiye, which is being rebuilt after the quake.