New wildfires have broken out on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast and the government has declared two western provinces to be disaster zones.

The Met Office say that temperatures at popular holiday destinations will be widely 5-10°C above average due to a severe heatwave in the coming days

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Amid a scorching Mediterranean heatwave, firefighters in Turkey and Cyprus struggled to contain devastating wildfires. In Turkey, ten firefighters died, and numerous residents were evacuated as fires spread rapidly due to strong winds.

Turkish Cypriots celebrated Turkey’s military invasion of Cyprus that cleaved the island nation along ethnic lines 51 years ago.

The United Nations chief says he would have liked more results from his meetings with the rival leaders of divided Cyprus.

Two people have been burned alive in a Brit holiday island - while another 10 were killed in Turkey as a huge wildfire inferno spread.

Offers made by Turkish Cypriots for help in fighting a wildfire in the Limassol district, which killed two and caused dozens to be evacuated from their homes, were rejected by the government, its spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Thursday afternoon.