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The Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) announced on May 20 that the units established earlier in a bid to assist displaced earthquake victims returning to their hometowns for the May 14 ballot will continue to work for the second round as well.

Health professionals in the earthquake zone still experience serious housing problems, as 80 percent of them are unable to find a place of their own, reveals a survey conducted by the Turkish Medical Association (TTB).

Women trainees in the quake-hit Hatay have presented clothes they produced for the Ramadan feast to other quake survivors.

The trainees, who have also experienced the quakes themselves, presented 750 sets of children's clothes, 100 sets of women's clothes and 250 candy bags they produced in the workshops established by the Şule Yüksel Şenler Foundation to other quake survivors.

To ensure the normalization of education in the quake zone before the new school semester, academic staff from prestigious universities will give lectures in quake-hit provinces, Türkiye's Higher Education Board (YÖK) member Prof. Dr. Ömer Açıkgöz announced.

As part of the measures to be implemented against the earthquake risk, an inventory of all buildings throughout the country will be prepared and a digital data repository will be created to determine damage in the quake zones, Environment, Urbanism and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum has announced.

As urban transformation works continue around Istanbul, the most risky area of Pendik district in terms of a possible quake is the center and the number of buildings built according to quake regulations issued after 1999 is only 6 percent, Pendik Mayor Ahmet Cin announced.

A female truck driver in France who has traveled 4,300 km for four days without a break and delivered 420 parcels of aid to the quake-stricken southern province of Kahramanmaraş, was included in the "Heroic women" photo series projected by the Culture and Tourism Ministry on the Galata Tower on Women's Day.

In a bid to save the historical heritage of the quake-hit provinces, experts and volunteer students are carrying out strenuous efforts to recover historical artifacts that got trapped under the rubble during the devastating quakes last month.

A few shopkeepers in the southeastern quake-hit province of Malataya have opened stalls on roadsides with whatever they could save in their shops, not to make a profit but to bring the city back to its former glory and extend a helping hand in such difficult times.

While aid support to the quake zone is still ongoing one month after the disaster, experts warned people about how they should support quake victims in a respectful manner.