Turkey’s 2021 wildfires were a warning. Some lessons were noted, others not.

Mar 18, 2024

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From Ahmetler village, bare hilltops that were scorched in the 2021 wildfires are visible in a distance. © Gonca Tokyol

ANTALYA & MUĞLA – In the summer of 2021, Turkey experienced its worst forest fires in decades. Flames scorched 150,000 hectares of forest along the nation’s southwest Mediterranean coast and claimed the lives of eight people.

The effects…

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