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Hydroelectric Threat
©Saner Şen
Republic of Turkey Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK) that was established on 2001 declared a new law about Renewable Energy on 2003. According to this law all river type hydroelectric power plants (HES) and the dams under 20 Mega Watt installed capacity, recognized as renewable electric source. Government and private energy companies are molding public opinion with disinformation about defining renewable energy. Foreign banks financed, government promoted 2000 new power plants which are killing the unique nature of Anatolia forever.
The right of using water of the Anatolian rivers are sold to private energ... |
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Hrant Dink Case, 2012-2007
©Nar Group
17th Jan 2012 Dink’s Case has finished after the 25th trial.
All suspects are acquitted from the charge of being a member of terrorist organization.
Yasin Hayal found guilty of ordering the murder and is sentenced to life imprisonment .
Osman Hayal is acquitted from all charges.
Erhan Tuncel is acquitted from the charge of being terrorist organizations leader and ordering the murder but found guilty of bombing Mc Donalds in Trabzon and is sentenced to 10 years and 6 months in prison.
Ersin Yolcu and Ahmet İskender found guilty of helping the murder and are sentenced to 12 years and 6 months in p... |
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Uludere Massacre
©Nar Group
Turkish warplanes killed 35 Kurdish smuglers on the Iraq border, officials said, in an attack Turkey’s ruling party admitted could have mistakenly hit civilians instead of Kurdish separatists. Turkey's military command said it launched an air strike on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants after a spy drone spotted a group moving toward its sensitive southeastern border under cover of darkness late December 28.... |
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Van Earthquake Aftermath
©Serra Akcan - Tolga Sezgin
The earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.2, struck in the Van province on October 23, 2011. The city was also hit by a second earthquake on November 9, 2011. Tens of thousands are left homeless, while over 600 people lost their lives. One month after the earthquake there has been 5205 aftershocks in the city.
The city’s crowded streets before the earthquake are now empty. Most of the people leave the city because of aftershocks, cold weather and insecurity. Earthquake victims who do not leave the city live in conditions becoming much harder with theft, harrasment and rape incidents. Some of the districts at the central Van ... |
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Bazaar of Anatolia
©Tolga Sezgin
Bazaars are the identities of their cities. Today most of the bazaars of Anatolia don’t have their old spirit but they are still standing against the big shopping malls which spread out all over Anatolia. Özcan Yurdalan and Tolga Sezgin have travelled to Antakya, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, Kahramanmaraş, Bursa, Çanakkale, Kayseri, İstanbul, Gaziantep, Mardin, İzmir, Edirne, Şanlıurfa, Beypazarı and Trabzon to write and photograph the old traditional bazaars for the book “Bazaars of Anatolia”.... |
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Van Earthquake
©Nar Group
Major Earthquake in Eastern Turkey. The eastern city, Van is hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake on Sunday, 23 October 2011. Officials report that 534 people are died, 2300 are injured, more than 2000 buildings are damaged or destroyed and 185 people are rescued from the wreckage on the fifth day of the earthquake. As many as 40,000 people are believed to be homeless due to the considerable number of collapsed or damaged buildings.... |
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IMBROS
©Serra Akcan
Imbros, renamed as Gökçeada in Turkish on 29 July 1970, is located in the Aegean Sea. Greek people were the major inhabitants in the island from ancient times through to the mids of the twentieth century. The island was given to Turkey as a part of the 1923 Lausanne Agreement, which determined todays borders. Imbros was not included in the population exchange that was arranged in the agreement. As a result, it remained one of the few places in Turkey where Greek culture continued on after 1923. Imroz people had a garden or a vineyard and they were stockbreeding, beekeeping. The biggest sponge fleet of Turkey was here. Che... |
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MAZXANA
©Husamettin Bahce
There is a significant distinctness almost in every respect (production, income, social infrastructure, unemployment, poverty etc.) between the east/southeast and the other regions of Turkey. According to several human development indexes the cities of the east and southeast take place at the end. The State Institute of Statics data states that average per capita income in the region comes up to one third of Turkey average. The reason of this inconvenience is the war environment in the region which lasts for 30 years. According to The Human Rights Institution and The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey reports more than 400... |
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