Two fire fighting airplanes sent from Turkish capital of Ankara have reached Israel at about 10.00 hours on Friday.
In a written statement issued Friday, the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forestry said that the two CL-215 type airplanes were sent upon a directive from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to assist in extinguishing the fire at Israeli city of Haifa.
In case of a request (from Israel), five Cross-border Fire Operation Teams are waiting ready in the Turkish provinces of Mersin, Adana and Kahramanmaras to help efforts to extinguish the Haifa fire, the Ministry said.
The Ministry’s statement also had a quote from the Turkish Minister of Environment and Forestry Veysel Eroglu: “Forests are the property of the whole world. We conduct activities to extinguish forest fires in all corners of the world. In the past, we sent assistance to Syria, Georgia, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), Greek Cypriot administration, Greece, Russia and Balkan countries to extinguish fires there. We offer our condolences to the families of the victims at the Haifa fire. We hope that the fire in Haifa would be extinguished soon”.
AA
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