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Turkey’s top administrative court Council of State has suspended several articles of the Environmental Impact Assessment (ÇED)

Turkey’s top administrative court Council of State has suspended several articles of the Environmental Impact Assessment (ÇED)

Hydroelectric plant (HES) projects that are spreading like fungus across Turkey, particularly in the eastern Black Sea provinces, continue to cause controversy, with locals of Artvin province’s Arhavi resorting to legal action to halt the first such plant planned in the center of the coastal town.

Data collected in the controversial environmental impact assessment report (ÇED) regarding Turkey’s prospective first nuclear plant in Akkuyu in Mersin has provided serious warnings that the plant could hurt the region’s ecosystem once it comes operational.

Turkey’s Constitutional Court halted July 5 a legal amendment that exempted companies from preparing an environmental impact assessment report (ÇED) on dozens of gigantic projects that have drawn controversy for their potential damage to nature.

Turkey’s Council of State approved on June 30 an earlier ruling declaring the Alakır River in the Mediterranean province of Antalya a natural protected area. 

A total of four hydroelectric plants (HES), have so far been constructed along the 70-kilometer-long river, which takes its water source from the Bey Mountains, west of Antalya.

Residents of the touristic Black Sea port of Amasra took to the land and the sea on World Environment Day June 5 to protest against the construction of a new coal plant near their town, which is known for its green landscape.

A mere 32 out of 3,309 applications for a positive environmental impact assessment reports (ÇED) have been rejected since 1993, according to the figures by the Environment Ministry figures.

This assessment signals that achieving authorization for investments is not a difficult task.