1250-Hectare Fire in Southern and Southeastern Turkey

In Kulp district of Diyarbakır province (southeastern Turkey) and in Mersin province (southern Turkey), 1250-hectare forestland fired.

In Village Duru of Diyarbakır, fire broke out due to an unknown reason at 5 p.m. yesterday. Fire grew with the aid of the wind and spread into the forest. 

Citizens stopped the fire since fire trucks couldn’t enter the rugged terrain. Local people managed to extinguish the fire after 7 hours with digging tools.

Co-Chair Rezan Zuğurli of Lice Municipality of Diyarbakır, said 1000-decare land was damaged because of fire. Zuğurli added Fire Department and Forestry Operation Directorate teams helped to extinguish the fire but they had difficulties since harsh conditions of the area.  

A village was evacuated in Mersin

A fire started in Gülnar district of Mersin yesterday. Village Koçaşlı of 200 was evacuated because a fire broke out at the morning hours in calabrian pine wood near Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant under construction. 250-hectare forestland was damaged.

Fire in Mount Judi was extinguished on the third day

Fire which started on July 16 in a forestland when a battalion shot artillery to Mount Judi was extinghuished on the third day. According to Anadolu Agency, 100-hectare land was affected and oak trees and 400 pistachio trees were damaged. Co-Chair Seyfettin Ademir of Silopi Municipality of Şırnak province, in Southeastern Turkey, said “5 thousand fruit trees in Herbul, an Assyrian village, were reduced to ash.” (NV/BD)

Photo Credit: Anadolu Agency/Muhsin Taş

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