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Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız has said 9 million trees could be planted with the income from the rent brought by the coal plant in the village of Yırca, located in the Soma district of the western province of Manisa.

If we lived in a normal and civilized country, Edirne Governor Dursun Şahin would have already been removed. 

The governor not only committed a hate crime, but at the same time is, as a civilian authority, he openly discriminated against the citizens of the Republic of Turkey.  

Turkey's Constitutional Court has issued rulings on two key cases, partly annulling the controversial expropriation law, while upholding the latest restrictions on alcoholic drinks.

Villagers in the Aegean town of Yırca, where an energy company with close links to the government cut down 6,000 olive trees for a thermal power plant construction last week, has harvested the olives of the felled trees for the last time.

Villagers in the Aegean town of Yırca, where an energy company with close links to the government cut down 6,000 olive trees for a thermal power plant construction last week, has harvested the olives of the felled trees for the last time.

Kolin İnşaat, the energy firm that felled around 6,000 olive trees in the Aegean village of Yırca last week for the construction of a planned coal power plant, laid off some 100 personnel after a Council of State decision halted the project.

Kolin İnşaat, the energy firm that felled around 5,000 olive trees in the Aegean village of Yırca last week for the construction of a planned coal power plant, was aware of a Council of State decision halting the project two days before its announcement, a deputy from Turkey’s main opposition has claimed.

Turkey’s Council of State ordered a stay of execution Oct. 28 for a controversial bill that opened olive groves across the country for the construction of energy facilities, amid disputes between local producers and energy firms looking to open new plants.