While the government has instrumentalized the refugees, the opposition has portrayed them as an economic burden, the İHD has said.

Struggling against LİMAK Holding’s efforts to expand a lignite mine for a thermal power plant, the people of İkizköy and environmentalists are still on watch in Muğla’s Akbelen forest in the wake of two decisions of stay of execution.

According to the data of the Directorate General of Forestry, 3,399 trees burned in Turkey last year. No forest fires were reported in Ağrı, Iğdır and Muş.

Videos from Kastamonu, the hardest-hit province, show that the water level rose so much that the first floors of buildings were flooded.

The TTB has underlined that the lives of migrants have become more difficult due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the biggest trouble is in healthcare.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 281 thousand tests were conducted, 22,261 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 138 people died of the disease and 1,170,644 vaccine doses were administered in a day.

While Giresun is the province which has the highest hydroelectric power production potential with 32 percent, it is followed by Trabzon with 26 percent, by Rize with 18.8 percent and by Ordu with 13.3 percent.

After a person was stabbed to death in a fight between refugees and locals in Altındağ, Ankara, people attacked shops and homes of refugees in the district for two nights in a row.

The fire in Antalya's Manavgat has been recorded as the largest wildfire in the country's history with some 56,000 hectares of forest burned.

According to a recent survey conducted by Ipsos, the majority of parents approve the decision to resume in-class education in Turkey as of September 6, but they think that in-class education will not begin as planned due to the increasing number of cases.

“Over 80 percent of intensive care patients are either unvaccinated or have received only the first dose,” says Edirne Medical Chamber Chair Altun.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 278 thousand tests were conducted, 27,356 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 128 people died of the disease and 1,296,688 vaccine doses were administered in a day.

Tensions have risen in Ankara's Altındağ district after an 18-year-old man was killed in a knife fight with refugees.

“It is easier for men to leave in a crisis due to the roles attributed to them. The burden of home and responsibility for the care of the elderly and children don't let women leave. That may be why women's climate struggle is so much more faithful and stubborn.”

After it was reported that a refugee from Syria stabbed two people in the capital city of Ankara, the residents of the neighborhood have damaged the houses, workplaces and vehicles of refugees in the neighborhood in Altındağ.

Firefighting efforts were made from both land and air to put out the fire that broke out in grassy areas and macquis groves in Muğla’s Bodrum. Minister Pakdemirli has announced that the fire has been taken under control.

While a wooden house has almost completely collapsed due to the flood in Bartın, the elder woman in the house has been caught up in water. Referred to the scene of the incident, the teams are searching for the missing woman.

A petition has been launched for the Akbelen forest in Muğla in the face of cutting of trees for coal supply to a nearby thermal power plant. Sharing the petition on social media, musician Tarkan has said, “Leave nature alone.”

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 264 thousand tests were conducted, 26,597 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 124 people died of the disease and 1,462,013 vaccine doses were administered in a day.

The two applicants were sentenced to prison in Turkey for being a member of an illegal organization. A court in Germany said they would not be in danger of being arrested if they were extradited.