ISTANBUL Türkiye marked the first day of the new academic year on Sept. 8 with a symbolic start: Millions of students across the country attended lessons dedicated to protecting forests and took home tree saplings to plant. This initiative emerges amid a summer of catastrophic wildfires ravaging the nation. Hundreds of fires scorched vast forested areas in the country’s western and southern regions during the summer months, destroying ecosystems and displacing wildlife, while prompting mass