Weekly Turkey Report: Third Week Of April – You can kill someone, but you cannot erase them
Executive Summary:
New details have emerged in the investigation into the disappearance six years ago of Gülistan Doku, a university student in Tunceli (Dersim). A confidential witness has alleged that Doku was raped, became pregnant, and was subsequently shot in the head and killed by the Governer’s...
At the start of the now on-hold US-Israeli war against Iran on February 28, 2026, this author speculated on whether or not the United States and Israel would be able to entice the Iranian Kurds’ small, poorly armed, and divided militias numbering possibly 6-10,000 fighters—largely sheltering just across the border from Iran in northern Iraq where they had been chased years earlier by the...
Extinction refers to the irreversible loss of a species – when the last individual dies and no living members remain anywhere on Earth. Biologically,...
Can we celebrate sustainably? Rethinking seasonal traditions in a warming world
Celebration is a universal human instinct. Across societies, people mark transitions such as the...
Overview of COP30
The 30th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is being...
Coffee, one of the world’s most traded commodities and a daily ritual for billions, faces an existential threat from climate change. Rising temperatures, erratic...
Pharmaceuticals in the environment: The global challenge of pharmaceutical pollution and how governments, industry, prescribers, and patients can respond
Ever wonder where all our medicine...
What comes after growth? Reimagining our economies for people and planet
Self-proclaimed radical economist, Kate Raworth, has remarked that the only thing in nature that...
Will planting a tree save the planet? The role of nature-based carbon offsetting in net zero transitions
Addressing anthropogenic climate change demands urgent, multifaceted interventions...
The global plastic waste crisis is one of the most dangerous anthropogenic environmental issues of our era. Plastic pollution has been found everywhere, from...
