Turkey’s disappearing lakes: Study says two million hectares of wetland lost
Turkey has lost two million hectares of wetlands in the past 12 years – mostly due to unregulated water use.
The findings in a new study have also highlighted that in the last six decades, most of the country’s lakes have dried up.
Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu reports from Lake Egirdir, in Turkey’s northern Mediterranean region.
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