Turkey is set to reconsider a 2004 decision to abolish capital punishment, justice minister said, after President Tayyip Erdogan raised the death penalty following wildfires earlier this week.
Erdogan said the punishment for burning forests should be "intimidating" to the point of death sentences, words taken by Turkey's justice minister as "instructions."
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ANKARA, Turkey: Water dropping aircraft from Azerbaijan and Qatar on Friday joined the fight against a wind stoked wildfire that burned for a fourth d.