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Happy Polar Bears’ Day

Happy Polar Bears’ Day

Greenpeace has explained 10 unknown facts about the polar bears that are endangered due to global warming and climate change: Their skin is black, tongue is white.

27 February 2018

Erdoğan: Greenpeace Activists Have Always Been Trouble in Black Sea

Erdoğan: Greenpeace Activists Have Always Been Trouble in Black Sea

About hydroelectric power plants, President Erdoğan has said “they revolutionized”, they confronted difficulties in this matter and continued, “Greenpeace activists have always been trouble in our Black Sea”.

7 November 2016

Greenpeace: Judge Nuclear Power Plants not Peaceful Protests

Greenpeace: Judge Nuclear Power Plants not Peaceful Protests

Greenpeace reminded 8 anti-nuclear activists would be put on trial and the protests were a part of freedom of expression.

21 October 2015

Nuclear Plant Ceremony Met with Protests

Nuclear Plant Ceremony Met with Protests

Attendants to the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant project groundbreaking ceremony locked iron gate; police attacked demonstrators with water cannons.

14 April 2015 Nilay Vardar

Greenpeace Climbs 117m to Protest Turkey’s Nuclear Plant Project

Greenpeace Climbs 117m to Protest Turkey’s Nuclear Plant Project

Greenpeace activists climbed to one of the tallest buildings in the southern district of Mersin to protest Turkey’s first planned nuclear power plant in Akkuyu district.

How Would You Like Your Air This Year?

How Would You Like Your Air This Year?

According to figures published by the Environment Agency 97.2 per cent of the population living in urban areas in Turkey were exposed to at least 35 days of air pollution above the recommended health limit. Turkey is continuing to breathe this invisible and silent killer.

16 January 2015 Buket Atlı

Greenpeace Activist Counts Her Arrest Days in Russia

Greenpeace Activist Counts Her Arrest Days in Russia

Gizem Akhan, one of 30 Greenpeace activists who have been arrested for protesting the oil drills in the North Pole, shared her arrest days with bianet.

3 January 2014 Elif Akgül

Fiber Storage Blaze Raises Concerns Over Hazardous Gas

Fiber Storage Blaze Raises Concerns Over Hazardous Gas

Greenpeace and a local environmental platform warned that the massive blaze in a fiber storage facility in Yalova province has caused the release of hazardous gas into the air, a claim that refuted factory administration's previous statement.

29 January 2013 Elif Cansu Akoğuz,Duygu Koçoğlu,Büşra Akman

New Fishing Regulations Raise Hope on Maritime Conservation

New Fishing Regulations Raise Hope on Maritime Conservation

A notice presented by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock to the Prime Ministry represents a step forward in the conservation of Turkey’s fish stocks and maritime environment, according to Greenpeace Mediterranean Oceans Campaigner Banu Dökmecibaşı.

24 August 2012 Ekin Karaca

Food Association Withdraws Application to Import GM Foods

Food Association Withdraws Application to Import GM Foods

A campaign launched by Greenpeace Mediterranean has achieved success, as the Federation of Food and Drink Industry Associations of Turkey announced that it withdrew an application to import 29 different kinds of genetically modified organisms (GMOs.)

15 August 2012 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Greenpeace Activists Taken in Custody During PM's Meeting

PROTEST IN MERSIN

Greenpeace Activists Taken in Custody During PM's Meeting

3 Greenpeace activists were taken into custody after posting banners against nuclear power at a meeting of PM Erdoğan. They were released a few hours later. The activists encountered negative reactions by women at the meeting even before the police intervened.

6 June 2011 Ekin Karaca

Greenpeace Protests against Putin-Erdoğan Meeting

Greenpeace Protests against Putin-Erdoğan Meeting

Environmentalists have warned that the Russian Prime Minister's visit will only lead to the encouragement of nuclear energy.

7 August 2009 Bawer Çakır

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