After fires, Turkey faces floods

Floods Wednesday came after some of the biggest fires in Turkey's history spread southwest.

State broadcaster T RT Haber said that one person died of a heart attack in the northern province of Bart amid floods, and emergency workers were looking for another person who had disappeared.

13 people were also injured after the bridge collapsed on Bart and had power cuts in 12 villages, said the Disaster Management and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD).

In the province of Sinop, 150 miles [240 km] east of Bart, a house collapsed because of the flood, and cars were trapped in the water.

Turkey, in particular, has faced a series of disasters related to climate change in recent months.

The raging fires burned tens of thousands of hectares of forest along its southern coast over the past two weeks. Last month, Turkey registered its highest temperature since 1961 to 49.1 degrees Celsius in the southeastern town of Cizra.

The lack of water continues to threaten the production of food and relations with Turkey's neighbours, who are already jumping for water rights, especially in relation to the Euphrates and Tiger rivers.

The situation has increased pressure on President Recep Tayip Erdogan to act.

Turkey remains one of the six countries still formally adopted the Klima Agreement in Paris, a treaty that seeks to slow the scale of global temperature growth through individual commitments by signatories.

Ankara has argued that the agreement unfairly classifies Turkey as a “developed” and not the development “”, which excludes it from access to additional funds under the treaty.