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Turkey one of four countries in Europe that haven't set a date to quit coal

Turkey one of four countries in Europe that haven't set a date to quit coal

Turkey should set a date for coal exit before the climate summit to be held in Egypt at the end of the year, says the Ekosfer Association.

Petition by young people in Turkey: 'Prepare a coal exit action plan for a carbon-free future'

Petition by young people in Turkey: 'Prepare a coal exit action plan for a carbon-free future'

The Youth for Climate Turkey team has launched a petition demanding that Turkey take realistic and genuine steps towards achieving its 2053 decarbonization target: “In order to do this, it is crucial that our country announces it will phase out coal by 2030.”

27 January 2022

New coal power plant projects have decreased by 76 percent since 2015

E3G REPORT

New coal power plant projects have decreased by 76 percent since 2015

E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism has released a report on the global pipeline of proposed coal power plants: “Turkey alone accounts for 73 percent of the remaining OECD and EU pre-construction pipeline.”

15 September 2021

Air pollution caused 5 thousand premature deaths in Turkey in 2019

FEBRUARY 4 WORLD CANCER DAY

Air pollution caused 5 thousand premature deaths in Turkey in 2019

According to the Chronic Coal Pollution Turkey report of Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), the annual health cost of coal power generation in Turkey is 53.6 billion lira.

4 February 2021

Ministry cancels coal-fired thermal power plant project in Kırklareli

Ministry cancels coal-fired thermal power plant project in Kırklareli

The Ministry of Environment and Urbanization has cancelled the coal-fired thermal power plant project in Turkey’s northwestern province of Kırklareli. Greenpeace has long been campaigning against the project.

23 September 2020

Erdoğan Vetoes Bill Postponing Installation of Filters to Coal-Fired Plants

Erdoğan Vetoes Bill Postponing Installation of Filters to Coal-Fired Plants

The President has vetoed a bill that postpones the installation of filters to 15 thermal power plants until 2022, AKP Spokesperson Çelik has announced.

2 December 2019

WWF: Air Pollution Caused Seven Times as Many Deaths Than Traffic Accidents in Turkey

WWF: Air Pollution Caused Seven Times as Many Deaths Than Traffic Accidents in Turkey

WWF Turkey has released a statement after the parliament approved a bill postponing the installation of filters to 15 thermal power plants across the country.

2 December 2019

Greenpeace: Coal-Fired Power Plants Caused 17 Thousand Premature Deaths in Afşin

Greenpeace: Coal-Fired Power Plants Caused 17 Thousand Premature Deaths in Afşin

According to a report by the Greenpeace, coal-fired thermal power plants have caused 17 thousand premature deaths in 33 years, in Afşin, Maraş province. Activists reflected the message, "This chimney spreads toxins," on a power plant's chimney.

With No Climate Policy At All, Turkey At Bottom of CCPI’s Climate Policy Ranking

With No Climate Policy At All, Turkey At Bottom of CCPI’s Climate Policy Ranking

Ranked in the 51st place among 58 countries in total, Turkey, was in the group of very poor performing countries according to the Climate Change Performance Index - 2017 and was on the very bottom of climate policy ranking for not having a climate policy at all.

16 November 2016

Battle Against Coal Plants Increasing in Number

#BREAKFREE FROM COAL CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED

Battle Against Coal Plants Increasing in Number

Turkey will participate in the campaign launched all over the world to break free from fossil fuel with the summit to be held in Aliağa.

4 May 2016 Nilay Vardar

Resistance against Coal-Fired Plant in Gerze

Resistance against Coal-Fired Plant in Gerze

About ten thousand people gathered in Sinop at the Black Sea coast on 26 November to protest the construction of a thermal power plant in Gerze. The coal power plant is planned by the Anadolu Group.

28 November 2011