{"id":3259,"date":"2026-07-31T19:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2026-07-31T19:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:02:10","slug":"evacuations-road-closures-and-destruction-massive-wildfires-sweep-across-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/evacuations-road-closures-and-destruction-massive-wildfires-sweep-across-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Evacuations, Road Closures, and Destruction: Massive Wildfires Sweep Across Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of July 2026, large-scale wildfires broke out along Turkey&#8217;s southwestern coast. The fires engulfed areas near popular tourist destinations, including Antalya, Kemer, Alanya, as well as Mu\u011fla Province, home to well-known resorts such as Fethiye, Bodrum, and Marmaris.<\/p>\n<p>The flames have spread rapidly due to extreme heat and low humidity, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of homes. Some buildings have also partially collapsed as a result of the fires.<\/p>\n<p>The wildfires have affected more than 10 provinces, including Antalya and Mu\u011fla. Several thousand firefighters and emergency personnel, supported by more than a thousand units of ground and aerial firefighting equipment, have been deployed to combat the blaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of July 2026, large-scale wildfires broke out along Turkey&#8217;s southwestern coast. The fires engulfed areas near popular tourist destinations, including Antalya, Kemer, Alanya, as well as Mu\u011fla Province, home to well-known resorts such as Fethiye, Bodrum, and Marmaris. The flames have spread rapidly due to extreme heat and low humidity, forcing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}