Drone footage shows before and after wildfires ravage Turkey's pine forests

Until devastated by wildfires, hills near the Turkish sea resort of Marmaris were decked in thick green pine forest. Now these same hills form a ghostly, grey-brown landscape topped with blackened tree stumps as though sketched in charcoal.

In the last two weeks, the fires have damaged tens of thousands of hectares of forest in Turkey's Mediterranean and Aegean provinces, killed eight people and forced thousands of people including tourists to flee.

Similar damage could be seen in before and after drone footage of the village of Bayır and the seaside resort of Turunc, also in the province of Muğla where both Marmaris and Bodrum, another major resorts, are located.

Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli said on Monday that the only wildfires continuing to burn were in the Muğla districts of Milas and Koycegiz, with nearly 240 blazes brought under control in the last 13 days.

Muğla municipality has said 55,000 hectares have been burnt - more than twice the area burnt across the whole of Turkey last year - and 36,000 people evacuated.

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