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Fires continue to burn in forest areas in Muğla, Aydın, Isparta, Karabük and Burdur provinces as 13 wildfires have yet to be taken under control, Turkish Agriculture and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli said on Saturday.
There are eight fires still burning in Muğla, the ministry said in a statement. The southwestern tourism province’s Milas and Marmaris districts remain the most affected in the area.
A total of 83,810 hectares (207,099 acres) of forest area has burned down in the fires that started on July 28, Gebze Technical University researchers told state-run Anadolu Agency.
The fire in the southern Antalya province’s Manavgat district encompassed some 140,850 acres to date, GTU’s topographical engineering researchers said, based on analyses of European Space Agency’s Sentinel 2 satellite imagery. The Manavgat fire has gone down in history as the greatest fire disaster in Turkey, they said.
