ANKARA (Reuters) -Firefighters battled wildfires across Turkey on Sunday amid a searing Mediterranean heat-wave, with authorities evacuating more than 3,600 people from settlements in two provinces. Wildfires in the southern provinces of Mersin and Antalya as well as the central province of Usak were largely brought under control,

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

New wildfires broke out along Turkey's Mediterranean coast on Friday (July 25), leading the government to declare two western provinces as disaster zones. Dramatic television footage showed flames and thick smoke engulfing areas near high-rise apartments in Antalya,