Asia · Western Asia
6 projects · 6 organizations
A coalition of health and nature groups won a Council of State ruling in September 2026 halting a rule that could have exempted coal plants, steel mills and cement works from pollution standards.
Istanbul's recycling workers, who by the president's account collect 80 percent of Turkey's household waste, have organised their own association and are now issuing members ID cards and numbered depots under municipal rules.
Türkiye has drained most of its lakes in a century; in the far north-east, one society got water back into a Ramsar site that had turned to cracked mud.
Buğday's seed-swap network, running since 2011, now has a dozen Hatay farmers growing local karakılçık durum wheat agroecologically on 100 decares of a chemical-heavy plain.
Turkey's largest environmental NGO has planted tens of millions of saplings and sown hundreds of millions of oak acorns to hold back soil erosion across the country.
Turkey's first marine conservation NGO runs a fleet of waste-collection boats and has taken ocean education to millions of students nationwide.