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Ankara, İstanbul blanketed by snow, eastern Turkey suffers freezing cold
Ankara was also affected by heavy snow, which caused difficult driving conditions. Ankara Municipality officials reported that 13 graders, nine diggers and many employees were working continuously to keep roads open to traffic.
Ankara Governor Kemal Önal stated that holiday leave is granted to disabled civil servants in the event of adverse conditions. Ankara civil servants with disabilities have been given three days’ leave due to the heavy snow, the governor told the Anatolia news agency.
The State Meteorological Directorate said the effects of a cold front moving in from Siberia had been felt across Turkey. The snow was expected to disappear by yesterday afternoon.
Subzero temperatures continue to affect the provinces of the eastern Anatolia region. While many parts of Turkey were affected by a severe cold front this week, Erzurum, in the eastern Anatolia region, experienced the coldest night in Turkey this winter when the temperature plunged to minus 34 degrees Celsius.
Temperatures in other areas were also chilly on Wednesday night: minus 29 in Ağrı, minus 21 in Ardahan, minus 17 in Kars, minus 14 in Erzincan and minus 19 in Iğdır, meteorological officials reported.
A total of 519 villages in the eastern Anatolia region, including 177 in Tunceli, 165 in Erzurum, 98 in Bingöl, 35 in Muş, 24 in Kars and 20 in Ardahan were closed to traffic due to heavy snow. Road crews are working round the clock to clear roads and open them to traffic.
Freezing temperatures don’t stop Van fishermen
Temperatures as low as minus 15 degrees Celsius have not stopped fishermen in the eastern province of Van. Turkey’s largest lake, Lake Van, which is also the fifth largest lake in Europe, has an abundance of pearl mullet, a fish found nowhere else in the world, which earn fishermen revenue during the winter months. The amount of pearl mullet in the lake has increased in recent years after fishing them was banned in spring and summer. Even though thermometers show temperatures as low as minus 15 degrees, fishermen start early in the morning and collect fish from nets they left in the lake the previous day. Stating that he has been fishing in Lake Van for the past 18 years, Fahrettin Akdeniz said they caught 30 kilograms of fish each day last week, while they caught 150 to 200 kilograms daily this week, adding that the number of fish in the lake has been increasing as the weather gets colder. Akdeniz further stated that more than 100 people work as fishermen in Lake Van.
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