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Heavy rainfall in Edirne and Kırklareli caused floods in streams with dozens of people evacuated.

With their wages not paid for six months, mine workers have been protesting in Tekirdağ province: “No one knows what we are going through or how I am. I cannot even buy shoes for my feet on this winter day. They should be ashamed.”

Cancelled by the court and planned to be located on agricultural fields in Ergene in northwestern Turkey, the plastic industrial zone is granted a “positive Environmental Impact Assessment” report by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization.

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.

Northern Forests Defense has protested destruction of Strandzha Forests in Thrace for Russia’s natural gas line called “Turkish Stream”: “Russia will enjoy it to the utmost, Strandzhas will pay the piper”.