Turkey-Earthquake: Emergency Situation Report (31.05.2023) – Türkiye

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Situation overview:

On 6 February 2023, two earthquakes with magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 heavily affected the provinces of Adıyaman, Hatay,
Kahramanmaraş, Kilis, Osmaniye, Gaziantep, Malatya, Şanlıurfa, Diyarbakır, Elazığ and Adana in Southern and Southeastern Turkiye, where almost 14 million people reside including around 2 million Syrian refugees. Aftershocks continue in the disaster area.

According to the latest statement from the Ministry of Interior announced on 22 April, the number of people who lost their lives was 50,783, 7,302 of whom were refugees. The number of injured was 107,000 and 297 people who were reported missing have still not been reached.

A total of 9.1 million people were affected by the earthquakes, 3 million people were displaced, and 298,000 buildings were completely destroyed.

In the earthquake zone, approximately 2.4 million people live in temporary shelters. Of these, 800,000 live in formal tent settlements, 218,000 live in containers, 118,000 live in buildings belonging to public institutions, while 1.6 million people continue to live in informal settlements or in neighborhoods where there is no functioning infrastructure.

STL published its latest emergency report on 17 May. Below are the developments in the region between 17-31 May:

• STL is focusing its emergency response in the provinces of Hatay, Adıyaman and Kahramanmaraş, which were most severely affected by the earthquake. STL also supports humanitarian aid coordination in Malatya. In addition to the 4 most heavily affected emergency provinces, STL carries out emergency response activities in the 8 provinces of Diyarbakır, Şanlıurfa, Batman, Mardin, Adana, Mersin, Izmir and Istanbul.

• STL carries out and plans to continue its activities in the sectors of shelter & non-food items (NFI) food security and livelihoods (FSL), water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), emergency
  education, temporary settlement support (TSS), mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS),
  and emergency protection.

 STL will provide micro-grants for survivor and community-led response initiatives in Hatay,
Kahramanmaraş, Adıyaman and Malatya to help them address their response and recovery needs.

 As of 31 May, STL has reached a total of 305,051 affected people with humanitarian assistance in 11
provinces since 6 February.

 In the second round of the presidential elections held on 28 May, 7,319,000 out of the 9 million voters
in 11 affected provinces cast their votes. Turnout decreased by 3.7% compared to the first round of
elections held on 14 May.

 The Ministry of National Education announced that they will carry out a summer school program in
the month of August in the provinces affected by the earthquake.
 2.5 million children in the earthquake zone are in need of humanitarian assistance. 4 million children
are of school age, of which 350,000 are refugee children and youth.

 In earthquake affected areas of Türkiye, about 40% of households live below the poverty line,
compared to 32% nationwide. It is estimated that this rate could rise to over 50%.

 The United Nations ended its $1 billion Flash Appeal for earthquake region, which it had issued at the
beginning of the earthquake, on 17 May. Only 353 million dollars of the Flash Appeal was fulfilled.