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Hundreds of Ships Stuck as Turkish Strait Closed by Wildfires
A helicopter drops water on a fire near Kayadere in Canakkale, Turkey, on Aug. 23.
Photographer: Gokhan Balci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Hundreds of ships were left unable to move between the Black Sea and the Aegean after Turkey closed the Dardanelles Strait to clear the area for planes fighting nearby forest fires.
Around 300 vessels were waiting to cross the Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits as of Wednesday afternoon, according to Mustafa Can, chairman of Istanbul-based maritime transport company Transbosphor.