Travel to İzmir faces serious challenges this week as fierce wildfires continue to sweep through western Turkey, forcing evacuations and threatening key

Firefighters early Friday gained control over a major wildfire in the western Turkish province of Izmir but two others continued to ravage forests there, a minister said.

Firefighters in Turkey have contained six of nine wildfires tearing across western Izmir province, officials said on Friday (July 5), after the blazes killed two people and forced thousands to evacuate their homes earlier in the week.