Turkey's glaciers fall victim to climate change

Turkey's glaciers fall victim to climate change - in pictures

Turkey’s glaciers fall victim to climate change

New sections of mountains that were once capped in ice are melting fast year after year

Turkey's glaciers fall victim to climate change

Kemal Ozdemir looked up at the bare peaks of Mount Cilo in Turkey's Kurdish majority southeast: "There were glaciers 10 years ago," he recalled under a cloudless sky.

Turkey's Glaciers Fall Victim To Climate Change

Kemal Ozdemir looked up at the bare peaks of Mount Cilo in Turkey's Kurdish majority southeast: "There were glaciers 10 years ago," he recalled under a cloudless sky.

Turkey’s glaciers fall victim to climate change - EUROPE SAYS

Turkey, which is experiencing heatwaves and drought, even registered a record temperature of 50.5C on Friday in Silopi, some 200 kilometres from Hakkari.

Climate change takes toll on Turkey’s glaciers - Turkish Minute

Kemal Özdemir looked up at the bare peaks of Mount Cilo in Turkey’s Kurdish majority southeast. “There were glaciers here 10 years ago,” he recalled under a cloudless sky. A mountain guide for 15 years, Özdemir then turned toward the torrent carrying dozens of blocks of ice below a slope covered with grass and rocks — a sign of glacier loss being exacerbated by global warming. “You can see that there are quite a few pieces of glacier in the wate…