Killing and evacuations through large -scale forest fires Turkey

Large -scale forest fires are going on in Turkey for the third day in a row. In the last few weeks, the country has had to deal with large forest fires several times. Since June, according to the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet Seventeen people killed, especially volunteers trying to extinguish the fires. Thousands of people have been evacuated in different parts of Turkey.

On Sunday evening late, according to the Turkish agricultural minister in three provinces, active hot spots were spread throughout the country. One of those provinces is Bursa in Northwestly. The fires started there on Saturday in the hilly areas around the city of the same name. With more than three million inhabitants, Bursa is the fourth city in the country. In the meantime, the edges of the city are being threatened and more than three thousand people have been evacuated from surrounding villages.

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A national record temperature was measured in southeastern Turkey on Friday. In Silopi, in the border area with Syria and Iraq, it became 50.5 degrees Celsius. Spread throughout Turkey, local heat records were measured in July.

The coastal areas of Turkey have been hit hard in recent years by natural fires, now that the summers are getting hotter and dryer – a development that, according to scientists, is the result of climate change caused by humans.

“We are currently ready day and night,” writes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on X. He writes that dozens of aircraft, more than a hundred helicopters and six thousand vehicles are deployed on the ground to combat the fires. 25,000 foresters and 132,000 volunteers are also active in fire fighting.

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