Speaking to reporters in Malatya, HÜDA PAR Chairman Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu said: “Today is the day to heal wounds together, today is the day to extend a helping hand, a hand of friendship, a hand of brotherhood to each other.”

Yapıcıoğlu joined the condolences of those who lost their relatives in the earthquake and offered sympathies and wished patience.

Yapıcıoğlu, who visited those injured in the earthquake in Malatya Training and Research Hospital, wished the injured earthquake victims well soon.

Yapıcıoğlu went to the tents of the victims whose houses were damaged in the earthquake and asked for patience.

Yapıcıoğlu also visited the tent city in the garden of Malatya Cultural Center, listened to the problems and troubles of the earthquake victims, and wished the earthquake victims to get well soon.

“Our work will continue until we completely heal the wounds of the earthquake”

Yapıcıoğlu stated that the problems and troubles on the first day of the earthquake eased and said, “We visited some of our villages. We met with the citizens in tent camps, we lent an ear to their problems and troubles, we noted down, and we will continue our efforts until the wounds of the earthquake victims heal completely, in order to inform the relevant authorities and to find solutions to their problems. We can see that the problems and troubles in the first days of the earthquake have been greatly alleviated or eliminated.”

Stating that it will take time to return to normal, Yapıcıoğlu said: “Maybe the citizens had requests for shelter and food at first, and the problems related to housing and food seem to have been solved to a large extent.”

Stating that it will take time to return to normal, Yapıcıoğlu said: “At first, the citizens had demands for shelter and food, and the problems related to housing and food seem to have been solved to a large extent. There are still deficiencies in tents in some places, and the complaints about the bathroom and toilet needs of citizens that we have identified in other regions continue here, albeit partially. But it is largely resolved here. There is a tent city set up in front of the Cultural Center, or rather, there are AFAD tents set up there. There are some problems that the citizens there expressed about leaving there. In addition to the tent demands of the citizens in some rural neighborhoods, especially in the villages that experienced great destruction, they also want shelter for their animals. Hopefully, we will solve all these problems, complaints and demands that we have identified, to the best of our ability, we will solve the problems ourselves, if we can be an ointment, we will do it, but we will also take the problems that can only be solved by the means of the state or the public to the relevant authorities.”

Yapıcıoğlu added: “I hope we will heal the wounds of this earthquake, which caused the loss of tens of thousands of lives and caused tens of thousands of buildings to be demolished or to a state that needs to be demolished, to a severely damaged state, only by working hand in hand as a nation.” (ILKHA)