The firefighting teams have been battling the flames before they reach the settlement areas. 

Bodrum municipal council member Numan Cömert told reporters that the municipality is on constant alarm due to days-long fires in the district.

“As the municipality, we are now on full alert all the time. Our firefighting teams and voluntary citizens have grown tired. But as you see, everyone, including volunteers, is on the field. Everyone is struggling to extinguish the fire. This nature belongs to all of us,” he said.

“There is now a big plane and three normal size firefighting planes. They are all intervening. As you see, there is intervention both from the air and land, but the worst thing is that the temperature is very high and the winds are blowing to the north and the fire is advancing towards the north,” he said.

Agriculture and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli also commented on the ongoing fire in Bodrum, saying: "A fire has broke out today in Gümüşlük in an area outside the forest. There was a quick intervention. Aerial and ground efforts to extinguish the fire continue."

Speaking prior to a firefighting coordination meeting in the town of Marmaris, Pakdemirli said that out of the 275 fires that have erupted in Turkey in the last two weeks, 272 of them have been brought under control.

He said in a later Twitter post that the blaze in Milas district in Muğla had been contained after burning for 11 days. Cooling efforts here continue, he added.