‘Nothing left to burn’ The cost of climate inaction
Everything in Muhammet şahin’s garden is dead: the plants, his chickens, the bees. This year’s unusually ferocious wildfires in south and west Turkey swept down on to his restaurant in the village of Osmaniye from two directions. As the flames rushed down the hillside, he and his wife had to flee, leaving their home and livelihood behind.
The couple have managed to pay for a new roof and fixed windows that shattered in fires over two devastating record-breaking weeks in
