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Antalya’s legacy should extend to its water use, heat protection, tourism, food supply, transport, and waste systems.

Through this dossier, we aim to make local experiences more visible by reporting on the impacts of the climate crisis across different regions of Türkiye, related rights violations, local struggles, and efforts to develop solutions. We seek to approach climate justice beyond an İstanbul-centred and mainstream media perspective, situating it within the broader contexts of the right to the city, ecology, labor, migration, and everyday life.

A delivery courier who worked during heavy rain in İstanbul says stopping work leads to a drop in his rating on the delivery app. The Courier Rights Association is calling on national and local authorities and platform companies to introduce measures protecting couriers' lives and incomes from the effects of the climate crisis.

Climate scientist Prof. Barış Önol told bianet following the Oct 14 floods in İstanbul, which killed seven people, that extreme rainfall would become both more frequent and more intense as a result of the climate crisis.

The company has been the target of sustained protests and campaigns by environmental activists in recent years over its tourism developments in protected natural areas.

Turkey's Green Taxonomy Regulation came into force ahead of COP31. The inclusion of nuclear energy, fossil gas, and carbon-intensive manufacturing sectors in the Taxonomy drew criticism. Experts assessed the regulation for bianet.

With temperature records broken this summer, energy poverty now covers not only winter but summer as well. We spoke with three experts about the 'right to cooling' and tallied the summer bill with our readers.

Over 64,000 square meters of agricultural land was expropriated to make parking lots.