In a green field of freshly-watered ground, patrolled by four dogs with short legs and big barks, a stretch of thin razor wire twists in a circle. On the other side of the wire, the ground falls away. A chasm has opened in the middle of this field, deep enough that standing on the edge could make anyone treacherously dizzy.
Two years ago, the ground collapsed, adding one more to the large number of sinkholes in Konya, a province in central Turkey. Mehmet Akıf Işıklı gazes into this sinkhole on his neighbour's farm, a match for the one that opened up in the middle of his own field.
