Kazakhstan starts building school in quake-affected Turkish province Gaziantep
Kazakhstan starts building a school in Nurdagy district of Türkiye’s quake-affected Gaziantep province, the press service of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry reported.
The school is being built at the instruction of the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Türkiye Yerkebulan Sapiyev, Governor of Gaziantep province Kemal Çeber, representatives of the Turkish ministry of foreign affairs and the ministry of national education, representatives of the Kazakhstan International Development Agency KazAID, the operator of the school construction projects as well as the residents and students of the city of Nurdagy.
The 960-seat educational institution has 36 classrooms, an amphitheater, science laboratories, yurt-shaped workshops as a symbol of friendship between the two countries, a gym, a canteen and other facilities.
On February 6, 2023, at 4.17 am, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake jolted Türkiye’s Kahramanmaras province and strongly shook several neighboring provinces, including Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir, Adana, Adiyaman, Malatya, Osmaniye, Hatay, and Kilis. Later, at 13.24 p.m. (1024GMT), a 7.8- magnitude quake also centered in Kahramanmaras struck the region.