Steam power

The thermal power plant in the Soma district of Manisa province was sealed at midnight on Jan. 1 due to the failure to install filters on the chimneys despite the given one-month period deadline, Demirören News Agency reported on Jan. 1.

Turkey has started taking legal action against thermal power plants that do not comply with the environmental legislation in the country.

Police attacked workers with tear gas and water cannon in an effort to disperse employees at the Yatağan thermal plant who chained themselves to the front of the Energy Ministry in Ankara on May 30 to demonstrate against the privatization of their workplace. Several people were also reportedly detained.