2024-06-22 13:58:55
The hearth has destroyed a number of villages within the Kurdish-populated space between Diyarbakir and Mardin provinces.
44 folks had been injured within the fireplace, ten of whom had been significantly injured. Kodja acknowledged that a number of emergency groups and 35 ambulances had been despatched to the scene.
The Kurdish occasion DEM on the “X” platform this morning referred to as on the authorities to shortly intervene and begin extinguishing the hearth from the air.
In response to the European Forest Fireplace Data System (EFFIS), 74 wildfires have damaged out in Turkey this 12 months, destroying an space of 12,910 hectares.
In the summertime of 2021, Turkey skilled the most important forest fires in historical past, which claimed the lives of 9 folks and destroyed large forest areas on the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts.
The pure catastrophe sparked a political disaster after it was revealed that Turkey had no functioning firefighting planes, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan needed to settle for worldwide help.
The catastrophe additionally prompted the federal government that Turkey nonetheless ratifies the Paris local weather settlement, changing into the final of the 20 main international locations to take action.
Consultants predict that local weather change will result in extra fires and different disasters in Turkey if no motion is taken to resolve the issue.
2024-06-22 13:58:55