Overview

• Multiple fires continue to burn in northwestern Turkey, including in Eskisehir where ten firefighters died, with 14 injured.
• In Cyprus’s Limassol hinterland, flames have razed about 100 square kilometers, leaving two civilians dead inside a burned vehicle; authorities have ordered evacuations across a 14-kilometer stretch of mountainous villages.
• Ground crews, supported by more than a dozen aircraft from EU Civil Protection Mechanism partners including Spain, Jordan, Israel and the UK, are conducting aerial water drops to suppress persistent flare-ups.
• Turkish Agriculture and Forestry Minister Ibrahim Yumakli has warned that scorching temperatures with sudden wind shifts have created dangerously volatile fire behavior, hampering nighttime containment efforts.
• Prolonged drought has depleted water reserves such as Cyprus’s Kouris reservoir at 15.5 percent capacity; this shortage has intensified wildfires, stretched emergency response resources.