Turkey's economy has returned to a "positive cycle" after market turbulence in March, Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said on Sunday. All financial indicators including gross foreign exchange reserves and the main stock index BIST100 have returned to mid-March levels with the steps taken to manage the economy,

Wildfires have engulfed Turkey for weeks, threatening Bursa, the country’s fourth-largest city and forcing over 1,700 people to flee.

Turkey was hit by a scorching temperature of 50° Celsius for the first time in recorded history on July 25. “This is climate change, and it’s accelerating,” was the response from weather site Met4Cast.

The ratings agency said Friday it lifted the country’s long-term foreign currency sovereign-credit ratings and local currency issuer ratings to Ba3 from B1.

New wildfires have broken out on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast and the government has declared two western provinces to be disaster zones.

Bursa, in Turkey, has been surrounded by wildfires forcing almost 2,000 people to flee their homes, while a firefighter has died battling the blazes - which have been raging since late June

Escalating tensions and regional ambitions could lead to confrontation, with both countries occupying territory in Syria

A politician in Turkey described the scene as "an apocalypse" as forests burned and more than 1,100 firefighters battled the flames. Meanwhile, in Greece, some suburbs of Athens have been evacuated.