Turkey Balances Carbon Interests with Green Ambitions
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 () Complicating Turkey’s COP31 bid is Ankara’s diplomatic distancing from the West in recent years, coupled with mounting democratic backsliding, underscored by the recent arrest of Erdoan’s leading political rival, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who maintains his jailing is politically motivated. To secure COP31, Turkey is expected to engage in high-level dialogue seeking support from Western Europe, North America and New Zealand. According to Ümit ?ahin, a prominent Turkish climate expert and the coordinator of climate change…
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 ()
