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The
Turkish government faced difficult choices following the major earthquake. |
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Listen
to Michael Elmquist of the United Nations Relief Committee. |
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26th August
1999
Turkish
earthquake - the aftermath
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The
situation is that we do not expect to find any more survivors
in the ruins. Now the shift in emphasis is towards ensuring the
survival of the homeless people and assessing their needs.
And also beginning the assessment of the overall need for reconstruction
and rehabilitation. |
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survivors,
the survival : 'Survivors' refers to the people who
lived through the earthquake and 'the survival' refers to the actual process of
living after the disaster reconstruction
and rehabilitation: reconstruction means rebuilding towns that have been destroyed;
rehabilitation is improving their condition so that they can be lived in again the
homeless people: this is another way of describing the survivors while giving
more information about them |
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This
is going to be a very difficult decision to be taken by the government
of Turkey. For the moment it is definitely the government’s policy
to do every possible effort to extract all bodies that
can be found in the ruins but obviously you come to a point
where you do certainly not want to put people at risk at working
in the very dangerous buildings that may collapse in order only to
extract dead bodies. And this has to be taken into account
by the government of Turkey. |
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every
possible effort: this refers to the lengths that the
government were going to to extract the bodies extract:
to remove with care
you come to a point: the time by which a reasonable decision is made, in this
case that it was reasonable to stop looking for bodies at
risk: to be in danger
to be taken into account: one factor to be considered when making a decision |
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Read
about the background in BBC News Online |
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