AFSIN: Kaddafi Polat rarely mentions his own health after decades of breathing the polluted air blanketing his village beneath the towering chimneys of a coal?fired power plant in southern Turkiye. What troubles him most is his children. Fine dust settles on cars, laundry and the narrow streets of Cogulhan, a village in the Afsin district of Kahramanmaras province, leaving a grey film over daily life — and over the now-rotting playground where his kids once played.