To assess the impact of the EU environmental acquis in the context of the EU-Turkey accession negotiations  and reinforce networks between European and Turkish environmental civil society actors, a delegation of Turkish legal experts, parliamentarians, academics and environmental activists visited Brussels between 26th and 29th  January 2016.

Here you will find the program and the video records of the 6.th Green Economy Conference on DEGROWTH which was organised on the 17.10.2015 in Istanbul 

Thomas Fatheuer, Lili Fuhr and Barbara Unmüßig of the Heinrich Böll Foundation set out to explore the basic assumptions, hypotheses and proposed solutions of the green economy and to illustrate and criticize their effects in practice.

   

On the News from HBSD pages, you'll find information on the Sustainable Life Film Festival, the event with journalist Jürgen Gottschlich on his book on Germany's role in the Armenian genocide, and our participation in the COP 21 Summit in Paris. 

A Kurdish Alevi village in Anatolia. In a snowy February when even peoples’ hands and feet are frozen as hard as rock, a women, tired out from continually giving birth to children, had horrific labor pain and grappled with death for days while bearing her eleventh child. A dark-skinned baby girl thus came to see the light of the day.

Considered to be one of the best films of 2015, Abluka (Frenzy) had its world premiere at the 72th Venice Film Festival and was deemed worthy of the Arca Cinemagiovani prize. Frenzy starts with the story of Kadir, who is released on probation after twenty years in prison. In return for his release, Kadir starts to work as a snitch for the state in slums inhabited by political dissidents, while making a living as a garbage collector... Let us lend an ear to the director Emin Alper on his film...