i really hate to be doing this but my country had been fighting with horrible forest fires for almost 8 days now and there is so little done to stop it. south coast of the turkey (mainly turkish riviera, the core touristic places of summer holidays in turkey, and they are the #1 source for our local economy) is quite literally under fire, many of us civils and animals had lost their lives, and over 3k+ buildings are destroyed, people are homeless. (here, you can watch the sky news journalist in bodrum, from a few days ago but the stuation continues the same. not only forests but it had been in the city center for days now, 60 villages had been destroyed and now the modern apartments etc. too, 560,000 hectares in total.)
so what does our government do? nothing. our people had been fighting with the fires all by themselves because the government left them to die, to their own fate. erd*gan refuses to use our firefighter planes because they are somehow, "old", even though thats a complete lie. morever, the governors refuse to help the towns affected by this horror, just because the said districts are with oppositent mayors (therefore oppositent municipalities, the cities that did not vote for erdogan and his party), because it is their way of punishing people and the municipalities for not choosing them in the elections. i dont want to put dead burned animals photos here so feel free to google, but our animals are dying and our people are just had been fighting on their own, without any equipment.
these are some of the animals that had been saved, but there are many of them gone more than saved and no one counts them as "dead" lives at all. here, you can listen the birds screaming for their lives from this video.
all of the people in these photos are civils, yes, even the men who are fighting with the fire below. and below them, them are civil people getting water from the sea to use them against the fires, because even the local fire fighters are refusing to co-operate and send air support (the helicopters and basic firefighter planes.)
PLEASE, please raise awareness about whats happening in turkey, a quick search on the news would tell you about the humanity crisis going on here. dont turn a blind eye to whats happening here.
here a few places where you can donate, the government is not involved with these donations at all. 1€= 10 Turkish lira and 1$ is almost 9 turkish lira. even the smallest penny would help to the people living here.
ahbap: theyre the most trustworthy organisation that helps people who are homeless, buys equipments to fight& prevent more fires and even helicopters. to donate to this organisation: for USD: TR320006400000210212150262 and for EURO: TR150006400000210212150277. you can make your donations through this website with the numbers i wrote above.
search & rescue association: they help the ones who are in really and immediate need and the money goes directly to the association.
haytap: this one is for animals. they help the animals who got hurt and seriously injured during the fires.
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