TRABZON — 1988 · Major Tragedy
Çatak Landslide Disaster
On 23 June 1988, after heavy rain, a two-stage landslide struck the village of Çatak in Maçka district, Trabzon. At around 02:00 a small slide blocked the Trabzon–Gümüşhane highway, and many travellers waiting for the road to reopen gathered in the village coffeehouse and nearby. At around 08:00 roughly 540,000 cubic metres of earth slid onto the village, burying vehicles, the coffeehouse, homes and shops. Sixty-four people died, three of them German citizens; most were travellers waiting for the road to reopen. Fifty-four of the bodies were recovered from the village coffeehouse; one person's body was never found. It is remembered as one of the deadliest landslides in Turkey.
- Date
- 1988
- Place
- Maçka (Çatak), Trabzon
- Category
- Major Tragedy
- Case Status
- Closed
- Coordinates
- 40.8000, 39.5840 ↗
Timeline of Events
- 23 Jun 1988, 02:00Small slide blocks Trabzon–Gümüşhane road
- 23 Jun 1988, 08:00Main mass slides onto the village and coffeehouse
- Jun 198864 confirmed dead
- 1988One body never recovered
Sources
- Vikipedi — Çatak Heyelan Faciası tr.wikipedia.org ↗
- Ankara Üniversitesi TUCAUM — 23 Haziran 1988 Çatak Heyelanı (Trabzon-Maçka) tucaum.ankara.edu.tr ↗
- Wikipedia
- Ankara University (Doğu, Çiçek, Gürgen)
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