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Türkiye consulate in Erbil urges flood-hit citizens to call emergency lines
The Turkish Consulate General in Erbil urged citizens affected by heavy rains to contact it through its round-the-clock emergency numbers and published a translation of an Erbil Governorate statement. Floods that swept through the city on Saturday evening killed two people, including a five-year-old child.
Late Saturday evening, November 7, the Consulate General of the Republic of Türkiye in Erbil urged Turkish citizens affected by the heavy rains that have been hitting its area of responsibility for some time and who need assistance to contact it through its two emergency numbers, available around the clock every day of the week:
- +964 750 802 5160 (Korek / WhatsApp)
- +964 776 133 4477 (Asiacell)
The consulate also asked citizens to continue following statements issued by official institutions and the consulate closely.
Erbil Governorate decisions
The consulate published an unofficial Turkish translation of a statement by Erbil Governor Omed Khoshnaw, who said heavy rains had damaged several neighborhoods and areas of the city and flooded many homes, stressing that all government teams were on alert to serve residents.
The governor said that although the rain had stopped, it was decided in coordination with the relevant authorities to suspend classes on Sunday, November 8, at all public and private educational institutions, from kindergartens through universities. Department heads were also authorized to count as leave, rather than absence, the days missed by employees whose homes had been flooded or who were unable to reach work. Service institutions and emergency teams were to continue their shifts without interruption.
Two deaths and extensive damage
Governor Khoshnaw told Rudaw that floods sweeping through Erbil on Saturday evening killed two people: a five-year-old child whose father's car was swept away by the water in the New Erbil district, and a 25-year-old volunteer who had been helping emergency teams and residents with his own bulldozer. The child's father survived, while the bodies of both victims were later recovered.
Khoshnaw said preliminary estimates put rainfall at around 80 millimeters, while forecasts had indicated about 30 millimeters. He added that the floods affected most of the city's neighborhoods and damaged homes, shops, cars, roads and the electricity network. Erbil Civil Defense told Kurdistan24 that its teams had rescued more than 20 people near the Highland complex.
On Sunday, the Erbil Water Directorate announced a temporary shutdown of the Efraz stations after a sharp rise in the turbidity of the Greater Zab River, affirming that neighborhoods would continue to receive water from reserve supplies. Masrour Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, had contacted the governor and directed that all necessary measures be taken to protect residents' lives and property.
Floods recur in the region during the colder months. Last December, floods in the Kurdistan Region and Kirkuk killed five people, injured 19 others and damaged 2,225 homes, according to the region's Joint Crisis Coordination Center.
Cover photo: Rudaw (Blen T. Abdullah). Photo inside the article: Kurdistan24. Sources: Consulate General of Türkiye in Erbil, Erbil Governorate, Rudaw, Kurdistan24
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