The first cancellations from tourists booked onto one of Ozkan Selcuk's cruises off Turkey's southern coast came when the forests near where he takes visitors turtle-watching caught fire. A year after the global COVID-19 pandemic devastated Turkey's tourism industry, the worst wildfires in living memory along its southern coast have delivered a fresh blow to the sector which makes up some 5% of the Turkish economy. A firefighter tries to extinguish a wildfire near Marmaris, Turkey, August 1, 2021. REUTERS/Umit Bektas File Photo/File Photo Tens of thousands of hectares of forest have been destroyed in 10 days in Mediterranean and Aegean provinces in what President Tayyip Erdogan has called Turkey's worst ever wildfires. Eight people have died and thousands of Turks and tourists ha...
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