{"id":19290,"date":"2018-01-20T11:09:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T11:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=19290"},"modified":"2018-01-20T11:09:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T11:09:42","slug":"intense-dust-storm-turns-turkey-skies-yellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/intense-dust-storm-turns-turkey-skies-yellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Intense dust storm turns Turkey skies yellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dust storm enveloped a swathe of Turkey&#8217;s southeast provinces of Diyarbakir and Mardin, the Dogan news agency reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Strong winds carried dust from Syria and Iraq which turned the sky over Diyarbakir a shade of yellow, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to Turkey&#8217;s regional meteorological authorities, windy conditions and heavy dust reduced visibility and air quality in southeastern provinces of<\/p>\n<p>Diyarbak\u0131r, \u015e\u0131rnak, Mardin, \u015eanl\u0131urfa and Batman.<\/p>\n<p>Dust clouds accompanied by muddy rain engulfed the area into darkness, even during the day. The weather is expected to continue into the evening.<\/p>\n<p>In Mardin province, which was the most affected from the storm, the differently-abled, unwell, and pregnant women in public offices were given a day&#8217;s leave<\/p>\n<p>from work.<\/p>\n<p>Some flights were cancelled due to poor visibility cause by the dust clouds.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dust storm enveloped a swathe of Turkey&#8217;s southeast provinces of Diyarbakir and Mardin, the Dogan news agency reported on Friday. Strong winds carried dust from Syria and Iraq which turned the sky over Diyarbakir a shade of yellow, local media reported. According to Turkey&#8217;s regional meteorological authorities, windy conditions and heavy dust reduced visibility [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19292,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19290\/revisions\/19292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}