Turkiye battles wildfires amid strong winds, heatwave

Istanbul: Firefighters were battling several blazes across Turkiye on Monday when the country sweltered in a summer heatwave, officials said. Wildf...

Istanbul: Firefighters were battling several blazes across Turkiye on Monday when the country sweltered in a summer heatwave, officials said.

Wildfires across Turkiye over the past week have led to at least 14 deaths.

Nineteen villages and more than 3,500 people have been evacuated from their homes.

Turkiye is experiencing a heatwave that peaked with temperatures above 40C across much of the country last week and even reached a record high of 50.5C on Friday in the far southeast, in Silopi, near the Iraqi and Syrian borders.