The Tree of Hope

The forest fire in Turkey's Hatay province in 2020 lasted for days and thousands of square meters of red pine forests turned to ash and this fire burned many houses in the villages of the province. Yaylica Village,located in the town of Samandag,Hatay Province,Turkey, the nature-loving daughter of one of the homeless villagers, named Ilkay, planted the first sapling in the burned forest. In other words, she threw the first step to renew the forest and gave the first hope to the villagers who supply their livelihood from the forest. This photo became the national symbol of the forest fires that lasted for months in the Mediterranean and Aegean Regions of Turkey in the summer of 2021, and wa...View all