The death toll from Turkey's flash floods soared to at least 38 on Friday as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited one of the hardest-hit cities to lead a prayer for the victims and pledge government help.
A handout picture taken and released on August 13 , 2021 by the Turkish Presidential Press service shows Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a visit to the disaster zone and flood hit site in the Turkish Black Sea region, in Bozkurt, in Kastamonu, province in north Turkey. – Heavy storms descended on Turkey’s northern stretches just as rescuers reported bringing hundreds of wildfires that have killed eight people since late July under near total control in the south.
In a provisional toll, the government’s disaster agency AFAD reported that 32 people had died in Kastamonu province, along the Black Sea, and that six others had lost their lives in the neighbouring area of Sinop.A previous spate of flooding killed six people last month in the northeastern province of Rize.
The powerful Turkish leader was roundly condemned on social media for tossing out bags of tea to locals while visiting one of the fire-ravaged areas at the end of July. “We will do whatever we can as a state as quickly as we can, and rise from the ashes,” Erdogan told the crowd. “If they had, I would have taken them and left in five minutes. They didn’t even tell us that the river was overflowing,” the elderly woman said.
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