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Julia Harte
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Turkey Expected To Cancel Nuclear Plans After Massive Earthquake
The earthquake struck approximately 20 kilometers north of the city of Van, pictured above. Turkey’s seismology institute estimated the final death toll would reach 1,000....
Turkish Village Goes Off The Grid With A Wind Turbine
“They’re blazing a new path in Turkey” reads the headline over this photo of Akbıyık villagers standing in front of their new wind turbine. The lights...
Local Wind Energy Industry Emerges In Turkey
Turkey has used wind energy for more than ten years now, but never from locally developed and produced wind turbines. That’s about to change. In...
In Remotest Anatolia, Lone NGO Speaks Up On Nature’s Behalf
Çağan Şekercioğlu founded ecological research and conservation NGO KuzeyDoğa in 2007 to promote biodiversity and resist environmental degradation in Turkey’s fast-developing eastern region. As thermal...
School’s In: Turkish Teachers Learn How To Teach Ecoliteracy
How should teachers incorporate environmental ethics and lessons on sustainability into their classrooms? That’s the focus of a four-year educational ecoliteracy project — Turkey’s first...
Natural Gas Creating New Axes of Alliance Across Mediterranean
Egypt and Turkey entered into several new energy-sharing arrangements on a recent diplomatic visit to Cairo by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Energy...
Turkey’s Touristic Beach Towns: Sun, Sea — And A Little Animal Exploitation?
Hotels and photographers along Turkey’s tourism-heavy southern coast are reportedly exploiting chimpanzees and other wild animals for profit — but Turkish authorities say they can’t...
Turkey Avoiding Greenhouse Gas-Reduction Despite Rapid Increases in Emissions, New Report Finds
Greenhouse gas emissions from Turkey don’t just pose an abstract, future threat to the country — the same gases that contribute to climate change periodically...
Turkey’s First “Slow City” Promotes Local Agriculture, Slow Food Movement
Seferihisar, a city on Turkey’s western Aegean coast, is part of Cittaslow, an international movement founded to promote the Slow Food movement around the world....
World’s First Manual Gear Hybrid Introduced to Turkish Market
One and a half years after the Japanese launch of the Honda CR-Z, the world’s first manual hybrid, it has come to Turkey, where high...
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