Sinkholes spread fear in Turkey's parched breadbasket

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 02, 2024 3:54 pm

KARAPINAR, Turkey — Every time Turkish farmer Fatih Sik drives his tractor across his cornfields he knows the earth could open up and swallow him at any moment.

Two giant sinkholes have already appeared on his land in Konya, a vast agricultural province known as Turkey's breadbasket.

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