Turkey serves as a model for disaster risk management - World Bank
Balkans.com Business News Correspondent - 08.10.2013
On August 17, 1999 a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck near Istanbul, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 people around the region and causing an estimated $5 billion worth of damage to the Turkish economy - nearly 2.5% of the country’s Gross National Product. When the shaking had stopped and the recovery process began, officials in the country seized the opportunity to begin implementing a series of steps to ensure that a disaster of this magnitude did not happen again.
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