Tag: DEDAŞ

A forest management officer was caught red-handed igniting a wildfire in Silvan (Farqîn) district of Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeastern Diyarbakır (Amed) ...

Kurdish villagers in southeast Turkey who recall the systematic burning of their villages by the Turkish state in the 1990s, ...

Two reports from 2020 uncovered DEDAŞ's neglect of electrical infrastructure in Kurdish-majority southeast Turkey, contributing to deadly wildfires and inflated ...

The Turkish government has been accused of prioritising control over the addressing of crises, such as the recent wildfires, by ...

A preliminary report by the Diyarbakır Chief Prosecutor confirms that the fire between Diyarbakır (Amed) and Mardin (Mêrdîn), which resulted ...

A fire in Kurdish-populated southeast Turkey last year, which devastated the same region where 15 people recently died, was caused ...

Negligence by Turkish officials, rather than villagers burning stubble, has been identified as the primary cause of a recent wildfire ...

Hamdin Demir, the mayor of Mazıdağı (Şemrex) who lost 10 relatives in the fire that swept through rural areas in ...

The Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) have responded to a devastating fire in Kurdish-majority areas of Turkey with a strong call ...

A wildfire has ravaged 66 kilometres of land in southeastern Turkey, leaving behind a path of destruction on Thursday and ...