Natural environment

Izmir's women bring grace and style to everything they do, including public demonstrations zmir's women like to boast that they bring grace and style to everything they do, including public demonstrations. That is probably why "Chic Women's Bicycle Tour," participated by some five hundred women, may well be the most ornamented demonstration in the country.

Hundreds of women have taken to the streets on bicycles in multiple events in western and southern Turkey to raise awareness of sustainable transportation methods, as Sept. 20 marked "The World Cities without Cars Day."

According to a study conducted by the WWF, the earth’s flora and fauna are at a critical level. Living organisms in the sea have dramatically fallen according to the findings of the study over the past decades, with the decline reaching as high as 50% in some specific species.

European Sustainability Academy (ESA) will host the 3rd Annual Women Empowerment Conference on September 25-26 at Chania, Crete.

The conference gives female business women a chance to meet with influential business people from around the globe.

Helicopters on Sept.14 water-bombed raging forest fires that have cloaked parts of Indonesia in thick haze and pushed air quality to unhealthy levels in neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia.  

The Kurba?al?dere stream, located in Istanbul's Asian-side district of Kad?köy, flooded due to heavy rainfall on Sept. 12, blocking a number of roads to traffic and paralyzing daily life nearby.

A newly-built waste processing plant in Bulgaria's capital Sofia will begin operating on Monday, the city mayor has announced.

The Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) has hosted the fourth Horizons Discussion in Belgrade.

The panel his time focused on "the Future of Europe," the think-tank said in a statement on Thursday.

The police officer who shot and killed Gezi protester Ethem Sar?sülük during the 2013 Gezi Park protests has been discharged from jail, even though he had been sentenced to seven years and nine months in prison.

The 6th Court of Serious Crimes in Ankara ordered on Sept. 3 the discharge of Ahmet ?ahbaz, the police officer who shot Sar?sülük in 2013. 

Japanese police said on Sep. 1 they had arrested US animal rights activist Ric O'Barry, who trained dolphins for the TV show "Flipper", near the town of Taiji as it kicked off its controversial dolphin hunt.