Dozens of people have been rescued from flood-hit areas since Wednesday.
Only days after wildfires ripped through southern Turkey, razing whole villages and forcing thousands to flee, rescue crews struggled on Thursday to evacuate scores of people and find the missing after heavy rain caused flash flooding in the northwestern region of the country. At least nine people have been killed in the floods, which have affected three provinces, according to Turkish authorities, and at least five children are missing. In the small town of Bozkurt, in the Kastamonu Province, four young children from the same extended family were missing. Fatih Karaalioglu, an uncle of the children, made a plea for help on Twitter. “Our children are under the ruins,” he wrote. “Help us.” The children, Ecrin and Iclal Yuksel,12-year-old twins, and two related siblings, Kerem Ali and Ayse Miray Ozdogan, were alone at home when the flood hit, Mr. Karaalioglu wrote. Initially the family thought they had been evacuated from the building where they were.
