Turkey to pay over TL 3 billion to terror victims

Interior Minister Muammer Güler announced on Thursday that the Turkish state will pay 173,000 citizens who have been victims of terrorism an amount of TL 3,016,512,916 in response to a parliamentary question.

Demir Çelik, a Muş deputy from the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), asked a parliamentary question for the interior minister regarding the applications made for compensation on the grounds of law No. 5233, a law regulating the compensation of damages stemming from terrorism and the fight with terrorism.

Güler stated that TL 3,016,512,916 has been submitted to the governor's offices in order to be paid to the applicants.

Güler, referring to the fact that the aforementioned law came into effect on July 27, 2004, said, “With this law, we compensate the damages of our citizens in terms of death, injuries, disablement, damages to moveable or real properties, damages linked to agriculture and livestock.”

According to Güler, there have been 363,826 applications to the commissions responsible for identifying damages since the law came into effect with 325,263 cases having been concluded and the government having decided to pay compensation in 173,482 of them.

Source http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=117756

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