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Amasra residents are getting prepared to bring an action against Environmental Impact Assessment positive report, which was accepted recently, of coal power plant in Amasra.

All current historical renovation-restoration efforts account to the reinvention of a neo-Ottoman eclectic style," said Edhem Eldem, history professor at Boğaziçi University.

The suspension of two unlawful hotel constructions in Cappadocia region created controversy regarding the lack of local administration control on construction licenses. Local organizations and residents are wondering how the hotel constructions went unnoticed while ordinary residents received prison sentences for simple renovation abuses.

News coverage related to environment and urbanization projects in Turkey rose by 10 percent in 2012 to roughly 57,000 articles, according to a report by Interpress.

Experts contested the planned construction site of Istanbul's new airport, saying that the area houses the last remaining environmental sites nourishing the gigantic city.