A huge search and rescue operation is underway in northern Turkey after flash floods along the Black Sea coast killed at least 27 people. Kastamonu province is the worst-hit area, accounting for 25 of the deaths. Two others died in Sinop on the coast.<br />'' <br />'' More than 1,700 people have been evacuated, and as many as 330 villages are now without electricity after the floods damaged power lines.<br />'' <br />'' This month Turkey has also had to battle huge wildfires in the south. Those fires ' which are now under control ' forced thousands of locals and tourists to flee Marmaris and surrounding areas. Eight people died and more than One Lakh (100,000) hectares of vegetation was devastated.<br />'' <br />'' Turkey's latest disaster came in the week that a major UN report warned of more extreme weather events because of human-induced global warming. Flash floods and severe heatwaves are afflicting much of Europe this summer.<br />'' <br />'' Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu on a visit to the area on Thursday said that, this is the worst flood disaster they have seen.