Tag: Turkey
The expansion of intensive marine aquaculture in Turkey: The next‐to‐last commodity frontier?
By Irmak Ertor, Miquel Ortega-CerdaAbstractAquaculture is one of the fastest growing food‐producing sectors, and its share in global seafood production is rising significantly compared with capture fisheries. This transforms seafood …
Environmentalism under Fire
By Burag Gurden. Similar writings by Burag Gurden have recently been published in the Ecologist and several other blogs and media. This article refers to all writings by the same …
Artvin’s stubborn people will not give up their fight against the destructive gold mine
By Cem Iskender Aydin. Residents of Artvin, a small town in the North-eastern Black Sea region in Turkey continue to resist the opening of a dangerous gold and copper mine in …
The “mining massacre” in Turkey following the explosion in the coal mine in Soma
By Pınar Ertör-Akyazı, Cem İskender Aydın, Begüm Özkaynak, Irmak Ertör. Hundreds of workers were killed following an explosion on Tuesday, May 13, in the coal mine close to the town of Soma, …
Socio-environmental valuation and liabilities. What strategies for environmental justice organisations?
Ejolt report 13: Socio-environmental valuation and liabilities. What strategies for environmental justice organisations? The report can be downloaded here. Abstract This EJOLT report focuses on two central issues: the use of evaluation methods and the …
Turkey’s Map of Environmental Injustices is now online!
By Begum Ozkaynak and BOG – Bogazici University- EJOLT team “The Map of Environmental Injustices in Turkey” that we have been engaged in as EJOLT-Turkey, with the Political Ecology Working Group in …
Declaration of the Ekopotamya Network (Turkey, Iran, Iraq)
We, civil society organizations and social movements from Mesopotamia have come together because our rivers and lakes remain to be in significant danger of being dried up completely to the …
Turkey’s Tree Revolution – part 2: Everyday I’m chapulling*
*Turkish word now meaning “fighting for your rights” (see wiki). The lack of consultation, the aggressive police intervention and the conversion of public space into private space explain why the occupation …
Turkey’s ‘tree revolution’ – part 1
Environmentalists have been protesting for months against a plan to swap trees for a shopping mall in Gezi Park at Istanbul’s Taksim Square. When riot police chased them away, the …
The project ENVJUSTICE has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 695446)