Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects

A major thoroughfare in the Atatürk Forest Farm (AOÇ), a previously protected area in the capital of Ankara containing Turkey's controversial presidential complex, will be blocked to vehicular traffic, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality as saying.

An Istanbul court revoked an amendment on June 11 for the construction plans of the access roads to Istanbul?s third bridge, which is being built in the northern part of the city. The court?s move may halt the bridge?s progress, as the construction of link roads will lose their legal ground.

As observers of political parties fight tooth and nail at the ballot boxes during and after the election day, volunteers have lined up for a fair-and-square count of the votes in the June 7 elections. 

Taksim Solidarity, a collective organization of several rights groups and NGOs at the center of the Gezi Park protests of 2013, called for a march to the central Istanbul park on May 31, the date marking the second anniversary of the mass protests that sent shockwaves through the country.

A planned clean-up project for Ergene River would destroy natural life in the Marmara Sea, according a report released by several non-governmental organizations and environmental groups May 18.

Workers' unions have continued their calls to meet in Istanbul's Taksim Square for May Day celebrations, but the Istanbul Police Department has begun taking excessive security measures to prevent unions from gathering at the square after the governor's office prohibited rallies in the square.

A local court in Ankara has ruled for a stay of execution on the reconstruction plan of Ankara's historic Ulus city center on the grounds that the plan does not serve the public good. The Ankara 7th Administrative Court ruled for the stay of execution over the 1/5,000-scaled construction plan at Ulus Square in Ankara.

Five managers of workers? unions and chambers have been acquitted of charges of inciting the public to take part in illegal meetings and marches for the occasion of International Workers? Day in 2014.
 

The dismantling of an oil refining ship named ?Kuito,? which operated off Angola for many years, has begun in Turkey?s Aegean province of ?zmir, despite fears the ship may contain radioactive material.

A team of 150 workers is scheduled to dismantle the ship within a year in the Alia?a shipyard in the Aegean coast.

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) is moving to destroy all opposition its vision of an authoritarian new Turkey, according to the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects (TMMOB).