Desperate attempts are being made across northwestern Turkey to rescue people trapped by flooding triggered by two days of torrential rainfall - the worst in 80 years.
At least 28 people are reported to have been killed but officials are saying that the death toll could get higher.
Parts of the country’s largest city, Istanbul, are already under water and forced thousands from their homes. The race is now on to try to stop the situation from getting any worse - with more rain forecast for later in the week.
Al Jazeera’s Anita McNaught reports from Ikitelli, Istanbul.
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Two local guys surf a standing wave in the floodwaters of Willamina, Oregon.
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Flooding in Nadi, Fiji January 9th 2009. Filmed while driving to Nadi airport.
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One of the highest tides in its history brought Venice to a virtual halt. It was the fourth highest tide since 1872, when the city started keeping records.
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Floods in southern Taiwan have caused a six-story hotel building to collapse.
Southern Taiwans Taitung region has been a tourist hotspot for its hot springs but floods have made it a disaster zone.
Torrential rain brought by typhoon Morakot made King-Shai hotel slant in the early hours of Sunday morning. It finally collapsed into a flooded river.
There are no casualties, as guests were evacuated before the building fell.
Typhoons regularly sweep across China and Taiwan, gathering strength from the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean, or the South China Sea.
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Monsoon rains flooded about two-thirds of Bangladesh in 1988, killing nearly 5000 people and destroying farm animals and crops.
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Footage of the June 2008 flooding and aftermath on the University of Iowa campus and surrounding area
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here is one of lady gaga’s first ever songs, from her first year at NYU.
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Floods by Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill ( 1996 )
Lyrics
A dead issue, dont wrestle with it, deaf ears are sleeping
A guilty bliss, so inviting (let me in), nailed to the cross
I feel you, relate to you, accuse you
Wash away us all, take us with the floods
Then throughout the night, they were raped and executed
Cold hearted world
Your language unheard of,
the vast sound of tuning out
The rash of negativity is seen one sid
Edly, burn away the day
The nervous, the drifting, the heaving
Wash away us all, take us with the floods
Then throughout the day mankind played with grenades
Cold hearted world
And at night they might bait the pentagram
Extinguishing the sun
Wash away man, take him with the floods
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