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CRISIS IMPACT OVERVIEW
• Two earthquakes hit southern Türkiye on 6 February 2023, affecting Hatay province. As at 8 April, the province had recorded over 22,000 deaths from the earthquakes, the highest reported across the 11 earthquake-affected provinces in Türkiye.
• As at 1 March, the earthquakes had displaced an estimated 774,500 people in Hatay, out of a total provincial population of two million, including 350,000 Syrian refugees (IOM 06/03/2023).
• As at mid-April, Hatay province had an estimated 1,456,000 people residing in temporary shelters, the highest number across all earthquake-affected provinces. Of this number, 902,000 were in informal sites, and 554,000 were in formal ones in Hatay (OCHA 30/03/2023).
ANTICIPATED SCOPE AND SCALE
• Shelter needs remain an urgent priority, particularly after rain damage, which has affected people already displaced by the earthquakes. This damage will worsen the secondary impacts of displacement and the lack of shelter, likely increasing people’s exposure to protection risks (OCHA 17/04/2023; ANF News 30/03/2023). Adaptation and mitigation measures are also necessary for emergency shelters as the province faces increasingly hot weather (OCHA 20/04/2023).
• Extensive damage to water infrastructure is likely to continue limiting the affected population’s access to safe water and affecting other needs, such as food and sanitation.
• The emergence of protection issues, such as sexual and gender-based violence and negative coping strategies, is likely to increase as underserved populations adopt survival strategies. Cases of child labour, forced labour, child marriage, and transactional sex will be of particular concern as the situation evolves (UNFPA 28/03/2023).
• In Hatay, debris management of demolished and collapsed buildings have elevated health-risk concerns for earthquake affected persons as mountains of rubble with potential toxic waste was disposed in close proximity to shelter settlements. The threat of diseases and health complications might intensify the need for further displacement as well as straining the existing health infrastructure (Washington Post 25/04/2023;
UNICEF 24/04/2023).