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Kınık Coal Mine
Kınık coal mine is an underground lignite mine in Turkey in Kınık District in İzmir Province, operated by Polyak Eynez Enerji Üretim Madencilik, which is owned by Fiba Group and Polat Madencilik. As late as 2024, according to local media, the company was still trying to get permission to build a coal-fired power plant. Polat and the related Polyak have been put on the Urgewald Global Coal Exit List. References External links Kınık Coal Mineon Global Energy Monitor Global Energy Monitor (GEM) is a San Francisco–based non-governmental organization which catalogs fossil fuel and renewable energy projects worldwide. GEM shares information in support of clean energy and its data and reports on energy trend ... Coal mines in Turkey İzmir Province {{mine-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coal In Turkey
Coal supplies a quarter of Energy in Turkey, Turkey's primary energy, and the country is one of the largest consumers in the world. The heavily Fossil fuel subsidies#Turkey, subsidised coal industry generates over a third of the Electricity sector in Turkey, country's electricity and emits a third of greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey, Turkey's greenhouse gases. Coal is a major contributor to Air pollution in Turkey, air pollution, and damages Health in Turkey, health across the nation, being burnt even in homes and cities. Most coal is burnt in power stations, and it is estimated that a phase out of coal power in Turkey by 2030 instead of by the 2050s would save over 100 thousand lives. Flue gas emission limits are in place, but data from mandatory reporting is not made public. Over 90% of coal mined in Turkey is lignite (brown coal), which is more polluting than other types of coal. Energy policy of Turkey, Turkey's energy policy encourages mining lignite for List of coal-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kınık
Kınık () is a municipality and district of İzmir Province, Turkey. Its area is 479 km2, and its population is 28,694 (2022). Composition There are 37 neighbourhoods A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ... in Kınık District: Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. * Arpadere * Arpaseki * Aşağı * Aziziye * Bademalanı * Bağalanı * Balaban * Büyükoba * Çaltı * Çanköy * Çiftlikköy * Cumalı * Değirmencieli * Dündarlı * Elmadere * Fatih * Hamzahocalı * İbrahimağa * Işıklar * Kalemköy * Karadere * Karatekeli * Kocaömerli * Kodukburun * Köseler * Mıstıklar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gazete Duvar
Duvar was an online news portal which focuses mainly on Turkish politics. Duvar's headquarters are located in Sariyer Istanbul. History It was founded in 2016 by Vedat Zencir, the first conscientious objector in Turkey. Its current editor-in-chief is Ali Duran Topuz and it is described as reporting critically on the Turkish government. Several Academics for Peace who were dismissed from their work figure among its authors. Other journalists recruited were formerly employed by other Turkish media but dismissed due to their articles which criticized the Turkish government. Gazete Duvar was ordered several times to remove articles from the internet. In the past, Turkish judges have issued rulings which blocked access to certain articles it has published. In October 2019, Duvar launched a version in English, and its editor-in-chief is Cansu Çamlıbel, a former Washington D.C. correspondent for the Hürriyet newspaper. Its goal was to inform English speaking readers about even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahval
Ahval is an Emirati-funded online news website that solely reports on Turkey. The site was launched in 2017. Turkish journalist Yavuz Baydar is the current editor-in-chief. The name ''Ahval'' means "events" and is a Turkish Arabism derivation from "ahwal". In February 2018, Ahval was blocked by the Turkish government for users in Turkey. In an interview with observatoireturquie.fr, Baydar stated that the site has 230,000 daily visitors. Talking to German newspaper ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'', Baydar said that the creation of Ahval aimed "to fill a gap caused by media bans and self-censorship in Turkey." The (English language) pages do not show any new articles since early November 2022. Ownership The website is owned by Ahval News Ltd, which is based in Cyprus. According to Qantara.de Ahval are financially supported by London media organisation "Al Arab", who are subsidized by the United Arab Emirates. Qantara criticised Ahval's Arabic language service for not being as neutral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hürriyet Daily News
The ''Hürriyet Daily News'', formerly ''Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review'' and ''Turkish Daily News'', is the oldest current English-language daily in Turkey, founded in 1961. The paper was bought by the Doğan Media Group in 2001 and has been under the media group's flagship ''Hürriyet'' from 2006; both papers were sold to Demirören Holding in 2018. Ideology ''Hürriyet Daily News'' has generally taken a secular and liberal or centre-left position on most political issues, in contrast to Turkey's other main English-language daily, the '' Daily Sabah'', which is closely aligned with the Justice and Development Party of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister of Turkey, prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Jus .... Another conservative competitor, the Gülen movement-run '' Today's Zam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIBA Group
Fiba Group (or Fiba Holding) is a Turkish holding company with business in finance, energy, retail, tourism, and property. The CEO is Murat Ozyegin, son of founder Hüsnü Özyeğin. In 2017 it co-owned Kınık coal mine. It is on the Global Coal Exit List compiled by the NGO Urgewald Urgewald is a group that researches coal companies, because they are among the top contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and so cause climate change Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase i .... References {{Reflist Holding companies of Turkey Coal companies of Turkey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polat Madencilik
Polat is a Turkish name of Persian () origin, meaning "steel". It may refer to: Given name * Polat Kemboi Arıkan (born 1990), Turkish long distance runner of Kenyan origin * Polat Keser (born 1985), German–Turkish football player * Polat Kocaoğlu (born 1979), Turkish basketball player * Polat Alemdar (born 1973), Main character of cult Turkish drama Valley of the Wolves Surname * Adnan Polat (born 1953), Turkish businessman and former president of the Galatasaray sports club * Filiz Polat (born 1978), German politician of Turkish descent * Lokman Polat (born 1956), Turkish-Swedish writer of Kurdish origin * Mehmet Polat (born 1978), Turkish football player * Rojin Polat (born 2004), Australian-Turkish women's footballer * Uğur Polat (born 1961), Turkish actor * Zümeyran Polat (born 1996), Turkish female wheelchair basketball player {{surname See also * Bolad (given name) * Polat Dam in Turkey * Polat power station in Turkey * Poladtuğay Poladtuğay (also, Polat-T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Active Coal-fired Power Stations In Turkey
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole". Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of '' The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urgewald
Urgewald is a group that researches coal companies, because they are among the top contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and so cause climate change Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in .... The Global Coal Exit List, which they publish, is famous. Urgewald provided analysis to underpin a ''Guardian'' newspaper exposé on the "scores of vast projects" that the oil and gas majors are planning . If only a fraction of these projects proceed to exploitation, the consequences for the global climate will still be huge. See also * Global Energy Monitor References Coal Environmental organizations established in 1992 External links List of coal companies {{Germany-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Energy Monitor
Global Energy Monitor (GEM) is a San Francisco–based non-governmental organization which catalogs fossil fuel and renewable energy projects worldwide. GEM shares information in support of clean energy and its data and reports on energy trends are widely cited by governments, media, and academic researchers. History Global Energy Monitor was founded in 2007 by writer and environmentalist Ted Nace. Originally named "Coalswarm", and affiliated with Earth Island Institute, the organization created a tracker database of global coal-fired power stations that became "widely respected" by academic researchers, media outlets, and governments. In 2018, GEM became an independent organization and expanded coverage to include natural gas pipelines, steel plants, coal mines, oil and gas extraction sites and renewable energy infrastructures. Research Global Energy Monitor produces information about energy infrastructures through datasets, maps, and online profiles of specific e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coal Mines In Turkey
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is a type of fossil fuel, formed when dead plant matter decays into peat which is converted into coal by the heat and pressure of deep burial over millions of years. Vast deposits of coal originate in former wetlands called coal forests that covered much of the Earth's tropical land areas during the late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) and Permian times. Coal is used primarily as a fuel. While coal has been known and used for thousands of years, its usage was limited until the Industrial Revolution. With the invention of the steam engine, coal consumption increased. In 2020, coal supplied about a quarter of the world's primary energy and over a third of its electricity. Some iron and steel-making and other industrial processes burn coal. The extraction and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
