Ecology

According to Tunçay Koç, an experienced lawyer with years of expertise in environmental cases, forest and water resources—critical assets for the future—are being depleted at an accelerated pace due to privatization policies. 

Yasemin and Cemal, two small business owners residing in Çıralı, are witnesses to the rapid and uncontrolled transformation of this small town. They believe the area needs more trees, not more roads and hotels, and they question the concept of industrial tourism.

As the de-facto privatisation of the Turkish coastline continues, its accessibility becomes more and more a class issue, excluding local people with smaller incomes or other marginalised groups.

One the one hand, the touristic sector is expected to supply the struggling Turkish economy with a reliable stream of income. On the other hand, the environmentally conscious public and activists are more and more aware and vocal about the immense negative impacts. 

Knowledge about how to farm is never static, it shifts with changing realities. In the Anatolian village of Karagömlek, rural depopulation and industrial inputs reshape local farming. This article explores, why Agroecology offers a critical perspective for the future.

The mood of COP29 in Baku can be characterised by global and national uncertainties and contradictions about achieving the net zero and 1.5-degree targets. Turkey's strategy can be similarly characterised.

"Nature-based solutions" receive widespread support. Yet they are so vaguely defined that corporations use them as a diversionary tactic for the ongoing destruction of "nature" on an industrial scale.

The reflections on health-nutrition-ecology relationships through food and farming bring us to never questioned before reality in organic farming as well as the accessibility of foods to those who grow them – the smallholder farmers, and the majority of consumers.