By Tuesday, storms are expected across Romania and the Black Sea and temperatures are due to return to normal for most of Greece and western Turkey. Yes, it is safe to travel to the vast majority of the country. While the Foreign Office has not advised against travel, it does warn that wildfires happen frequently in summer.

Wildfires that have engulfed Turkey for weeks threatened the country’s fourth-largest city early Sunday, causing more than 1,700 people to flee their homes and leaving a firefighter dead.

Wildfires that have engulfed Turkey for weeks spread rapidly overnight, threatening Bursa and forcing 3,500 to flee. Greece and Bulgaria are also contending with fires.

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

Turkey is hit by a record high temperature of 50.5 degrees as southeastern Europe reels under a heat wave and battles wildfires.