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INTRO | | The Turkish government faced difficult choices following the major earthquake. |
IN FULL | |  | Listen to Michael Elmquist of the United Nations Relief Committee. |
 |  | 26th August 1999 Turkish earthquake - the aftermath |
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| NEWS 1 | | 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. |
WORDS | | 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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| NEWS 2 | | 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. |
| WORDS | | 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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