Saving İskenderun Bay: A doctor, a lawyer and their legal campaign against polluters

Mar 11, 2024

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The Hunutlu thermal power plant in Yumurtalık, Adana. © Can Erok

ADANA – Dr. Sadun Bölükbaşı is pensive as he looks out at the Mediterranean Sea from İskenderun Bay, a thumb-shaped gulf between the southern provinces of Adana and Hatay. He thinks he knows why the latest Greenpeace report identified this area as having the worst air quality in Turkey.

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A guest post by

Nimet Kıraç

Nimet Kirac is a freelance reporter based in Turkey's south. A graduate of George Washington University, she started her career at CNN International. She is a New York Times contributing reporter and a correspondent at large for Gazete Oksijen.