Death Toll From Northern Turkey Floods Rises to 27

Death Toll From Northern Turkey Floods Rises to 27
Search and Rescue team members evacuate locals during flash floods which have swept through towns in the Turkish Black Sea, in Bozkurt, a town in Kastamonu province, Turkey on Aug. 12, 2021. (Onder Godez/Ministry of Interior Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) Press Office/Handout via Reuters)
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ISTANBUL—Flash floods that have swept through towns in the Turkish Black Sea region have killed 27 people, the country’s emergency management agency said on Friday, in the second natural disaster to strike Turkey this month.

The floods brought chaos to northern provinces just as authorities were declaring wildfires that raged through southern coastal regions for two weeks had been brought under control.