{"id":51484,"date":"2025-08-08T10:52:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/wildfires-force-turkey-to-close-key-waterway\/08\/08\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:52:26","slug":"wildfires-force-turkey-to-close-key-waterway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/wildfires-force-turkey-to-close-key-waterway\/08\/08\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires force Turkey to close key waterway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Dardanelles Strait has been temporarily shut to maritime traffic due to large forest fires raging in north-western Turkey, the country&#8217;s transport ministry has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The major international waterway was shut as a precautionary measure, it said, as the blazes spread near the city of Canakkale, where a number of residents have been evacuated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Turkish firefighters have been deployed to try to contain the fires. Specialist firefighting planes and helicopters are also in use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Dardanelles links the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara. Together with the Bosporus Strait, it serves as a vital route for commercial shipping between Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/wildfires-force-turkey-close-key-143207895.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dardanelles Strait has been temporarily shut to maritime traffic due to large forest fires raging in north-western Turkey, the country&rsquo;s transport<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/wildfires-force-turkey-to-close-key-waterway\/08\/08\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/bbc_us_articles_995\/a8665b6f97d7c394fb0f2ecdabe35ae5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}