Simple living

The 10th Sustainable Living Film Festival will be organized between Nov 22 and 26 in 10 cities across Turkey along with other side events

When asked about Diogenes, Plato described the philosopher as "a Socrates gone mad."

Diogenes was considered mad because he threw people's contradictions, hypocrisy and double standards in their faces…

Or because he strolled around the city squares in daylight with a lamp, saying, "I am just looking for an honest man"…

A local religious conservative foundation staged a protest in the Black Sea province of Sinop on Aug. 22, demanding the removal of a statue of Ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes.

The Erbakan Foundation said it was protesting the fact that the Greek ideology being attached to the province rather than arts.

The Yeryüzü Derneği (Earth Association), which is working for a more sustainable world, became the 15th Changemaker of the eighth season of the Sabancı Foundation Turkey's Changemakers Program.

An old Ottoman town with scenic landscapes and historic memories, the Göynük district of the northwestern province of Bolu has been declared as the latest addition to a network of slow cities by the Cittaslow General Committee. 

Eleven Turkish cities have so far been declared as a slow city by the committee.