HBİM Group Claims Forest Fires in İstanbul, Muğla

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Fires broke out in the Aydos Forest in Kartal, İstanbul and woods in Dalaman in the western province of Muğla last week, razing 400 hectares of forest.

The HBİM said that it burned the forest in a response to "occupation attacks and the massacre of nature in Kurdistan," the Firat News Agency (ANF) reported.

Ahmet Şık from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) denounced the act on Twitter, saying, "Attacking trees, water, nature is also hostility towards the people."

Cenk Yiğiter, an Academic for Peace who was discharged from the Ankara University, also tweeted on the attack: "A group named ' Peoples' United Revenge Militia' claimed the forest fires in Muğla and İstanbul. This is cowardice, enmity towards the people, a massacre of nature, an assassination of the future of all of us."

The HBİM group also claimed the fires broke out on July 1 in Datça, Muğla, where 5 hectares of forest razed and on July 4 in Erbaa in the central province of Tokat. (HA/EKN/VK)