A forest fire is spreading further and further on Mount Cûdî in the northern Kurdish province of Şırnak. Due to restricted military areas, the fire cannot be stopped.

The forests have been burning in Northern Kurdistan for two months. Almost every day, a new area is added where the vegetation is on fire. The fires usually break out directly at military bases.

On Wednesday morning, a fire was discovered in a forest area near the village of Cifane on Mount Cûdî. The fire has been spreading unhindered ever since. The burning area is one of the many military exclusion zones.

Military prevents extinguishing work

Another military base is to be built in the area and entry and exit from the area is only possible with special permission. The fire brigade and the municipality's firefighting teams were not given permission by the military to fight the fire. This approach shows once again that the fires are not coincidences, but rather a targeted form of warfare.

Large areas around military bases in particular are being deforested by fire in order to deprive the guerrillas of freedom of movement. At the same time, widespread clearing work is taking place to destroy the remaining vegetation and to give collaborators the profits from the sale of wood.

The fertile region of Northern Kurdistan is to be transformed step by step into a desert that is hostile to life.