Firefighters are tackling blazes across Turkey as dry, hot and windy weather conditions cause a series of fires
Firefighters were tackling blazes across Turkey on Friday as dry, hot and windy weather conditions led to a series of fires, including one that threatened World War I memorials and graves at theAt the peninsula where an Allied landing was beaten back by Ottoman troops in a yearlong campaign in 1915, the flames reached Canterbury Cemetery, where soldiers from New Zealand are interred.
The fire was brought under control by Friday. Officials said it was started by a spark from electricity lines that spread through forested areas.On the west coast, a fire threatened houses on the outskirts of Izmir, Turkey’s third largest city, where a blaze broke out in woods Thursday night. Residents fled their homes as ash fell around them.
In Manisa Province, a fire was burning for the third day in Gordes, a rural wooded district in Turkey’s northwest. Nearly 80 homes were evacuated and most buildings in the village of Karayakup suffered severe fire damage, the Demiroren News Agency reported.Turkey has mobilized dozens of aircraft, hundreds of vehicles and thousands of personnel to fight the fires.
The General Directorate of Forestry warned people not to light fires outside for the next 10 days due to the current weather conditions across western Turkey, warning of a 70% greater risk of wildfires.fire that burned an area almost twice the size of Manhattan
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