Turkey: A reluctant signatory of Paris climate accord?

"For the first time, every country in the world has pledged to curb emissions, strengthen resilience and join in common cause to take climate action, What was once unthinkable has become unstoppable," Ban Ki-moon, U.N. Secretary General tweeted following the climate accord in Paris.

U.S. President Barack Obama too wrote, "This is huge: Almost every country in the world just signed the Paris Agreement-thanks to American leadership." 

Having already drawn international attention for the most gruesome terrorist attack only weeks ago, Paris became a physical venue of perhaps the most promising global agreement to protect the world from an imminent disaster following two weeks of talks, pressures and last minute deals. Some 195 countries agreed to co-sign this first universal agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to set goals to limit temperature rises to below 2 degrees Celsius by 2020. 

According to Western media, the final outcome of the summit hung in balance until the last moment. As the Guardian newspaper reports, tense exchanges took place behind closed doors between oil-producing countries such as Saudi Arabia and Russia and a coalition of U.S. and Europeans; it took "two weeks of intense negotiations, capped off by three sleepless nights, with Barack Obama and Hollande phoning other leaders to bring them on their side with the deal," the Guardian claimed.

In the end, almost 200 countries agreed that global carbon emissions should start to fall as soon as possible; that in the second half of the century, carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced to levels that can be absorbed by forests; that all countries would be monitored for their policies on emissions; that developed countries as of 2020 would help poorer countries...