{"id":657358,"date":"2026-06-25T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657358\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:58:08","slug":"droughts-are-transforming-the-turkish-landscape-with-massive-sinkholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657358\/","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":657359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-657358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}