The speaker of the Great National Assembly (Parliament) of Turkey expressed condolences to the people of Kazakhstan in connection with human victims as a result of forest fires in the Abay region of the Republic.
“I express my condolences to the friendly and fraternal people of Kazakhstan in connection with the death of 14 people as a result of forest fires in Kazakhstan, I wish the victims a speedy recovery,” Kurtulmush wrote on social networks.
June 12 in Kazakhstan announced a national mourning.
Flags are seen throughout the country.
The area of fires in the Abay region amounted to 60 thousand hectares. 14 employees of the State Forest Natural Reserve “Family of Orman” were killed.