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.'Anywhere could sink, I keep thinking. And I know I'd be dead at the bottom,' the 45-year-old farmer from Karapinar told Agence France-Presse.'But I have to work otherwise my family will starve.'This part of central Anatolia has had sinkholes for centuries.
Cracks first appeared in 2018 so he went to the local council which sent workers to cover the area with rocks. Two years later, the ground collapsed.'It sank 20 meters,' he told AFP, saying he was too terrified to sleep at home that night. But with nowhere else to go, he has learned to live with it.So far, nobody has been hurt or killed in the region, but everyone is aware of the danger.
Spread Fear In Turkey's Parched Breadbasket
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