Turkey: Climate and tourists push Cilo Glaciers toward extinction
Glaciers on Turkey’s Cilo Mountain, among the last remaining Ice Age remnants in the Middle East, are facing extinction within ...
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Turkey: Mucilage threat returns, choking Marmara’s vital coral reefs
A thick, jelly-like layer of marine mucilage has once again returned to Turkey’s Marmara Sea, posing a severe threat to ...
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Villager killed in Artvin as protests against govn’t backed tourist facility
Muhammed Ustabaş, allegedly linked to a government-backed company, attacked a demonstration organised on Tuesday by local groups against a tourist ...
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Environmentalists plan campaign to halt extractivism-induced deforestation in Turkey’s Şırnak
Environmentalists in Şırnak (Şirnex), southeast Turkey, are raising alarm over ongoing deforestation, warning that the region could soon become a ...
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Turkey-backed mercenaries devastate Afrin’s fruit, olive trees
Turkey-backed mercenaries and settlers have decimated more than 21 million fruit trees in Afrin (Efrîn) since their occupation began in ...
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Impact of Turkish invasion into Iraqi Kurdistan felt far from border: report
The Turkish army's invasion of the Iraqi Kurdistan region has led to massive displacement and environmental destruction, particularly in the ...
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Weaponising wildfires: Deforestation as De-Kurdification
Dr Thoreau Redcrow argues that Turkey systematically uses wildfires as a strategy to displace Kurds and exert control over Kurdish ...
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