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Tender for building hotels in forestlands in 7 provinces

MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND TOURISM

Tender for building hotels in forestlands in 7 provinces

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced a tender for construction of 4-5 star hotels and thermal facilities in some forestlands in the provinces of Artvin, Bursa, Kars, Kütahya, Mersin, Ordu and Uşak.

Courts grant motions for stay of execution for Akbelen forest

Courts grant motions for stay of execution for Akbelen forest

In two separate trials, the administrative courts have given decisions of stay of execution for Muğla’s Akbelen forest, where the villagers and life defenders are struggling against LİMAK Holding’s efforts to expand a lignite mine for a thermal power plant.

Petition for Akbelen forest: ‘We won’t surrender it for coal’

TARKAN EXPRESSES SUPPORT

Petition for Akbelen forest: ‘We won’t surrender it for coal’

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.”

‘Trees would have been cut down if we had not been here, we won’t leave Akbelen’

INTERVENTION IN İKİZKÖY

‘Trees would have been cut down if we had not been here, we won’t leave Akbelen’

The gendarmerie have dragged the citizens out of the Akbelen forest in fire-hit Muğla while they were on vigil against the efforts of LİMAK Holding to extend the mine for coal supply to a thermal power plant. Villagers and environmentalists are still resisting.

10 August 2021 Nurşen Çinkaya

Intervention against resistance in Akbelen: People dragged out of the forest

Intervention against resistance in Akbelen: People dragged out of the forest

While 105 trees have been reportedly cut down in fire-hit Muğla’s Akbelen Forest under the pretext of preventing fires, the gendarmerie intervened against the people’s resistance at midnight, dragging them out of the forest.

105 trees cut down in fire-hit Muğla’s Akbelen: ‘We will stand fast’

105 trees cut down in fire-hit Muğla’s Akbelen: ‘We will stand fast’

Citizens are keeping watch in Muğla’s Akbelen forest in the face of LİMAK Holding’s efforts to cut down trees to extend the mining site for coal supply to a thermal power plant. Noting that 105 trees have been cut, they say they will not let more trees be cut.

10 August 2021 Nurşen Çinkaya

Minister: 3,720 forest fires occurred in Turkey in one-and-a-half years

Minister: 3,720 forest fires occurred in Turkey in one-and-a-half years

The Minister of Agriculture has responded to a parliamentary question by the main opposition CHP's Ömer Fethi Gürer.

2,688 forest fires broke out in Turkey in 2019

2,688 forest fires broke out in Turkey in 2019

A forest land of 11,000 hectares was razed by fires in Turkey last year. According to the data of the Directorate General of Forestry, the cause of half of these fires is unknown while 33 percent of the started as a result of negligence.

‘There are Some Making an Effort to Turn Forests into Concrete,' Says Erdoğan

‘There are Some Making an Effort to Turn Forests into Concrete,' Says Erdoğan

AKP Chair and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has spoken at a symposium on local administrations: “That capitalism… It doesn’t care what happens to nature.”