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  • 7/4/2025
Two people are dead from fires raging through part of western Turkey's coastal Izmir Province. The fires have burned down 200 homes and forced 50,000 residents to evacuate. A group of arsonists that claims ties to an outlawed political party is claiming responsibility for starting several urban fires.
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00:00Two people have been killed in western Turkey as wildfires burn across the country.
00:06200 homes have been destroyed in Izmir province, with 50,000 people forced to flee.
00:12Other wildfires have started in forests near Istanbul and in the tourist-heavy Antalya province.
00:17Turkey is prone to wildfires in the summer, but some places are not acts of nature.
00:22A group called the Children of Fire took credit for multiple arson attacks in several Turkish cities.
00:27They claim to have ties with the outlying Kurdistan Workers' Party, which has not commented.

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