Grounded Firefighting Aircraft Haunt Erdogan as Blazes Rage
- Agency which has countered wildfires for decades ‘imploded’
- THK was formed by Turkey’s secular founder Ataturk in 1925
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The amphibious firefighting planes sitting idle at an airport while Turkey’s worst ever wildfires ravage its southwestern coast are coming to haunt President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
For decades, the Turkish Aeronautical Association or THK, established by the country’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1925, has fought back the forest blazes that sporadically took hold in hot and dry Mediterranean summers.