Süheyla Suzan Alıca
Is it futile fighting for the environment in Turkey?
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) reports, known in Turkey by their acronym ÇED, became part of Turkish legislation in 1983, but it was another 10 years before they entered into force in 1993.
Since then, the regulation has been amended 17 times, most of them in the 2000s, during the Justice and Development Party (AKP) tenure.