Turks give en masse aid to earthquake victims
ISTANBUL – After the heavy earthquake yesterday in the East Turkish province of Van, everywhere in Turkey initiatives have started to gather aid for the victims. Municipalities coordinate the aid, arrange boxes and transport, and civilians bring blankets, coats, nappies, socks and sweaters.
A truck arrives at the town hall of Kadiköy, a municipality of Istanbul. it parks by the entrance, …
Poisonous mud flow threat in Turkey
ISTANBUL – In Kütahya in West-Turkey environmental organizations and people in villages close to a silver mine fear a disaster from a mud flow of toxic cyanide. Earlier this week an embankment of a waste pit collapsed. Within twenty days an emergency storage pond will be made ready and the danger will come to an end, a mine spokesperson says. …
This miracle of nature in the middle of Turkey has rocks in the shape of witch’s hats and fairy chimneys, and underground villages and mysterious secret churches. Also, it’s an amazing area for walking.
Published in slightly altered format, with lots of beautiful pictures by Mick Palarczyk)
The freakish, bizarre landscape of Capadocia was shaped millions of years ago, …
Forest fires in Turkey sometimes lit by army
ISTANBUL – The forest fires raging across the southern Turkish region of Antalya have nothing to do with terrorism or the fight against it. Some fires in others parts of the country do: the Turkish army sometimes lights them in its fight against the Kurdish PKK, which threatens to set forests on fire in the west of Turkey in retaliation.
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Gold mines threaten green Turkey: even national parks are no longer safe. Villagers protest and go to court. “We expected more support from Europe.”
If only it was so simple, sighs Kumsal Yenilmez, protester against the opening of more mines in the west of Turkey. A judge recently decided that a gold mine close …
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