Turkey has opened over 1.4m hectares of land for mining since 2024. The goal: Extract an estimated $3.5 trillion in buried wealth. The cost: Irreversible damage to the country's natural landscapes and rural economies. @MouterW & @Daniel_B_Thorpe report: turkeyrecap.com/p/turkeys-fa…

And current trends show little sign of slowing despite the recent cooling of Turkey’s official inflation rate. For more details, see @MouterW's new report: 📈The cost of living crisis: Why middle-income earners are struggling in Turkey turkeyrecap.com/p/the-cost-o…

“The deaths of delivery drivers are not because of individual mistakes. Couriers are dying, being killed, as a result of the system," @kuryehaklari's Mesut Çeki said. @MouterW & @Daniel_B_Thorpe report on the high rate of workplace deaths in Turkey: turkeyrecap.com/p/1736-death…

A late-spring frost cut Turkey’s expected apricot output from 750,000 tons to 10,000 this year. Many other crops were damaged, deepening pressure on global and domestic food prices, which were already rising at a record rate in Turkey. @MouterW reports: turkeyrecap.com/p/cost-of-co…

The CHP has called İmamoğlu’s arrest a “coup” intended to block him from running for president. To channel and sustain the resulting outrage, the opposition party has a strategy with of 3 main initiatives. @MouterW reports from Saturday's Maltepe rally: turkeyrecap.com/p/cornered-b…

"It's a full-scale environmental disaster," @profmustafasari said. With the resurgence of sea snot in cold winter months, experts and fishers fear marine life in the Marmara Sea could face a mass die-off event this spring and summer. @MouterW reports: turkeyrecap.com/p/dawn-of-th…

Years of unchecked urban development have turned many of İstanbul’s vacant lots into apartments and shopping malls, leaving residents few areas to gather during emergencies. @MouterW and Boran Göksel report using open source data and spatial analysis: turkeyrecap.com/p/out-of-spa…

Aliağa hosts the fourth-largest ship dismantling area in the world. It’s also the most popular destination for EU vessels. Despite this, Aliağa remains marred by a lack of safety standards and poor labor conditions @MouterW and @lyse_mauvais report: turkeyrecap.com/p/where-ship…

In December, Germany announced it'd start replacing Turkish-trained imams with a domestic imam training program to serve its Muslim community. The process also aims to reduce Ankara’s sway over diaspora communities. @kendrickson and @MouterW report: turkeyrecap.substack.com/p/a…

As renters and home buyers struggle to find apartments amid housing cost hikes – with some getting killed over rent disputes – many apartments remain unoccupied in Istanbul. Wouter Massink (@MouterW) reports: turkeyrecap.substack.com/p/a…

A year after fleeing Putin's military mobilization, Russians who moved to Turkey are struggling to get short-term residency permits and many are forced to leave. Wouter Massink (@MouterW) reports on Ankara's changing migration policies and their impacts: turkeyrecap.substack.com/p/o…