{"id":517568,"date":"2026-06-25T10:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517568\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T10:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:43:07","slug":"droughts-are-transforming-the-turkish-landscape-with-massive-sinkholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517568\/","title":{"rendered":"Droughts are transforming the Turkish landscape with massive sinkholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">&#8220;It&#8217;s very important for our food security\u2026we as a country depend on fisheries, forestry, agriculture, so we need to sustain these resources. Livelihoods are dependent on that,&#8221; says Atak. &#8220;I never blame the farmers. I never blame the local communities. I mean, they were born into a traditional system: fisheries, forestry, farming. And it is the government duty to plan, to inform, to guide, provide incentives and everything.&#8221; (Turkish authorities declined to comment when contacted by the BBC.)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s very important for our food security\u2026we as a country depend on fisheries, forestry, agriculture, so we need&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-517568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}