TURKEY has been ravaged by fresh wildfires with over 1,500 civilians forced to flee their homes.

A firefighter has died as they battled the rising flames which come amid a number of terrifying and deadly fires breaking out across the country.

Residents in Bursa were alerted of the serious fires early on Sunday.

Flames first broke out in forested mountainous areas in northwest Turkey as they rapidly spread across the region.

The Bursa governor’s office said in a statement that 1,765 people had been safely evacuated from villages to the northeast.

More than 1,100 firefighters have been drafted in to help save those still trapped and to extinguish the flames.

Fears are also surrounding the highway linking Bursa to the capital of Ankara after it was closed on Sunday amid the fires burning through the surrounding woodlands.

The flames have scorched 7,413 acres around the city so far, according to the city’s mayor, Mustafa Bozbey.

Orhan Saribal, a local MP in the province, described the scene as an apocalypse.