Habib-i Neccar Mosque that is located in Antakya is known as one the oldest mosques of Anatolia. But this building was built as a Christian temple firstly. It was built in 7th century AD. It was named of an apostle in Antakya. This apostle was a carpenter.

The apostles came to Antakya to promulgate Christianity. But the local residents rejected their belief. Finally they were beheaded. The head of the carpenter was behaded on the peak of the hill and his head rolled through the place of the mosque at present. Also the tombs of St.John and St. Paul are here.

After the eartquake on 6th of February, it is one of the buildings that damaged in earthquake.

Discover Turkiye and travel in time….

Earthquake is one of the facts of this geography. Unfortunately, every 100 years or every 50 years Turkish landscape has been facing small or big (depends on the period) earthquakes. Türkiye is like Japan actually. The geographical features always affect from the earthquakes. It is reported that some of them have small magnitudes like 2.0 and 3.0 that’s why we can’t feel them.

The only thing we need is a detailed natural disaster policy including floods and earthquake. The reports are published; we know it. But the problem is that nobody cares them till the disaster happens. Then the scenarios are created, and the authorities state that they get lessons. Then another one happens; the same circle starts. It goes on. Thus, we lose thousands maybe ten thousands of our citizens because of the same event. This isn’t fair. Briefly our problem is about understanding.

Türkiye is a secular and law state. The codes and the state budget should be arranged up to the target; we are on the faults and our main principle is to apply science in public works. We have to speak about science not religion. We should be ready for any sort of natural disaster. Also, it is valid for individual scale. The construction industry has to handle the most important issue, security. Also, the technologies should be applied to construction industry.

For a bright future……

For my lovely country……

The earthquake that caused a big damage in South Eastern Turkiye also damaged the historical fortress of Gaziantep province. This fortress is also a symbol of the city. Its history is unknown but it is guessed that it goes back to Hittites in order to dominate the region.

After this earthquake, the fortress had a big damage as you can see above. All city walls of the fortress fell down. The historical structures of the fortress were also damaged. Its richter scales are so big that the fortress shared the same destiny with the city.

History is also mourning in Turkiye…..