Streets were inundated in numerous neighbourhoods, while floodwaters entered ground-floor and basement flats in some areas, the state news agency Anadolu reported.
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The Istanbul Governor’s Office said on X that by the evening more than 1,000 emergency calls had come in, reporting flooding, landslides and fallen trees, among other things. Governor Davut Gül suspended in-person classes for Thursday.
The use of two-wheeled vehicles was banned from Wednesday evening. The governor’s office wrote that a total of around 8,000 emergency workers, along with 2,000 vehicles and work machines, were deployed.
In the Sarıyer district, some passengers of a bus climbed onto its roof after the vehicle became stuck in the floodwater. Other vehicles also got stuck, Anadolu reported. Videos showed numerous cars and buses surrounded by water, which had risen sharply.
