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, 95,000 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 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 man who is fighting with the fire below (he is even a famous actor himself, not a professional at all). 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, even going up to a point of the functionaries from the government refusing to stop the fires with saying "this forest will burn, you can not go there".
these are the firefighter planes that our government refuses to use (a delegate of the oppositent parties went front of the instution they are held in) and they are the same ones that were sent from europe union (spain and crotia) in order to help to fight the fires. we have our own planes but the government does not use them, and they dont allow the oppositent mayors to use them either. the government even showed off with these planes a year ago in an event held. the forests are in high up mountains, and the only way to stop them is with planes. several celebrities and all the oppositents had been quite literally begging for air support in marmaris and milas, but they got no positive answers from the government.
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.
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