Most of the forest fires were promised by the PKK-affiliated group to burn …

(MENAFN – Trend News Agency) Turkey has completed a week of fighting against forest fires that devastated the southern region, Trend reports quoting Daily Sabah.

The causes of the forest fires are still unclear, but suspicions are linked to the terrorist PKK group, whose members were behind the earlier forest fires in the country. One branch of the terrorist group did not directly take responsibility for the fires, but on Sunday openly threatened the country with fire attacks targeting both forests and people.

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli, as of Sunday, said that 107 out of 112 forest fires in the country are under control. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is in Antalya to visit the affected areas, said a lot of research is being done to find possible perpetrators behind the fires. “We hope that our police, gendarmerie and intelligence units will analyze every sign, information and intelligence on this issue. We are concerned about the suspicion of sabotage. If there are traitors who go so far as to burn our country, duty, “Erdogan said.

The president said he was aware that the number of forest fires and areas affected by forest fires had doubled since the “terrorist group” leaders were tasked with burning forests last year. He was talking about the PKK. “As we are close to ending their presence in the mountains and on our borders, we are determined to wipe out the terrorist group’s cells in its cities,” Erdogan said.

On social media, the Turkish people hastened to blame the PKK’s “Children of Fire Initiative” for a series of fires in Turkey late Thursday. The PKK’s burning of Turkish forests as a “revenge” against the Turkish state has long resulted in the deaths of civilians and the destruction of the environment. The almost constant nature of the fires has raised concerns that Turkish netizens could be the result of a series of arson attacks blamed on the PKK. The “initiative” threatened the country with new fire attacks on Sunday, according to a statement posted on its website. The group said they would carry out arson attacks everywhere along with provocative attacks. He called on members of the organization to shoot and kill anyone who opposes the terrorist group.

Murat Karaylan, one of the highest-ranking members of the PKK, had previously welcomed the use of incitement in terrorist attacks. Two or three young people can get together and do something. “They may say, ‘We don’t have weapons,’ but their weapons are lighter and more matchy,” he said.

Another high-ranking PKK terrorist, Semdin Sakik, had previously said that the terrorist group would take similar action if necessary. If we run out of weapons, we will go to Bodrum and burn their yachts, we will go to Antalya to burn their greenhouses. , go to Istanbul to burn their cars and go to Izmir to burn your forests.

In October last year, all four provinces of Turkey fell victim to the PKK’s hatred of nature, and at the same time, fires destroyed forests in various parts of the country. Turkish authorities began arresting suspects who set fire to forests in the Belen region south of Hatay, and a PKK-linked terrorist group soon claimed responsibility for the attack. The Children of Fire Initiative praised the attacks on Turkey’s forests and the terrorists who started the fire. The so-called “initiative” has been responsible for many fires in recent years, and the group is known for its close ties to the PKK terrorist group.

Meanwhile, PKK sympathizers on social media have further expressed their hatred of the forests with jokes that ridicule the fire through the joint efforts of terrorist propaganda. The group’s sympathizers, who shared links to PKK-linked Euphrates News Agency (ANF) websites and Nuce Ciwan’s articles praising the fires, continued to note the damage the terrorists had done to the environment. In 2019, the group claimed responsibility for forest fires in Turkey’s western, northwestern and southern provinces, declaring “fiery revenge” against the state.

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