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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday suggested reinstating the death penalty for those responsible for igniting wildfires. “Where would this [punishment] lead to? Death sentence? It should be death sentence,” Erdoğan told reporters in the fire-hit tourism resort of Marmaris in the south-western province of Muğla. Turkey abolished the death penalty in 2002 and the parliament would first need to vote before Erdoğan can approve it. A wildfire in Marmaris, which has been raging since Tuesday, has affected 4,000 hectares and forced 435 people to evacuate, Erdoğan said. On Friday, a cour…