By James Rodger
UK tourists with holidays booked to Turkey have been warned their trips could be at risk as a heatwave and wildfires sweep the holiday hotspot. A video on TikTok has gone viral as a Shadows restaurant and dance bar worker cracks an egg on the side of the pavement. The employee in the clip declared it was 42C and insisted there was “no oil” in the pan and that he had used a “fresh egg”. In reply, one TikTok user said: “Oh my God!” A second said: “We’re coming in August, I hope it’s cooled down by then!” Another added : “That’s dangerous weather.” And another typed: “I went to Antalya last year [at the] end [of] July. It was 52 every day [and] was unbearable!” READ MORE Rachel Reeves set to cut cash ISA allowance from 拢20,000 on July 15 The Spanish state meteorological agency, Aemet, said in a social media update that “June 2025 smashed records鈥 when it comes to high temperature, with an average temperature of 23.6 Celsius, 0.8 Celsius above the previous hottest June in 2017. The monthly average was also 3.5 Celsius higher than the average over the period from 1991 to 2020, it said. The agency鈥檚 comments come just days after Spain鈥檚 highest ever June temperature of 46 Celsius was recorded in the Huelva province of Andaluc铆a. 鈥淓xtreme heat is no longer a rare event 鈥 it has become the new normal,鈥 UN secretary general Antonio Guterres warned. 鈥淭he planet is getting hotter & more dangerous 鈥 no country is immune.鈥 Turkey has been ravaged by wildfires over the last few days following intense heat across its western coast. Rescuers have evacuated more than 50,000 people – mostly from the western province of Izmir – as firefighters continue efforts to put out hundreds of wildfires. Fires have also swept through parts of the Bilecik, Hatay, Sakarya, and Manisa provinces. Forestry Minister Ibrahim Yumakl谋 said yesterday that over the past three days, emergency teams had responded to 263 wildfires nationwide. Health Minister Kemal Memi艧o臒lu said 46 people impacted by the fires were being treated in hospitals.