TURKISH WEATHER IMPROVES, BUT BRINGS FLOODS
Turkish banks and government offices
reopened here after snow blanketing the city began to melt,
causing floods and traffic jams.
    Turkish radio said 16 villages in the southern province of
Hatay were evacuated after the Karasu river burst its banks,
flooding 5,000 hectares of crops.
    The radio said cold weather and snow still covered much of
central and eastern Anatolia, the Asian part of the country,
and two people were frozen to death near the town of Corum. The
weather office in Istanbul said the cold front was moving east
and conditions should be back to normal by the weekend.
 Reuter
