Turkey’s Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation After The 2023 Elections: Is The Worst Yet to Come?
Turkey’s Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation After The 2023 Elections: Is The Worst Yet to Come?

Author(s): Aslı Sen Taşbaşı
Subject(s): National Economy, Environmental and Energy policy, Electoral systems, Environmental interactions, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Turkey; economic; growth; environmental; degradation; 2023; elections; worst;
Summary/Abstract: Turkey is located in the Eastern Mediterranean, one of the regions that is anticipated to be most affected by the climate crisis, and is designated by the United Nations (UN) as being “vulnerable to the impacts of climate change”. The likelihood of rising average temperatures and decreasing rainfall across the country is already escalating inequality in a number of areas, including food security, rural development, access to clean water, and income distribution. This highlights how the climate crisis in Turkey is both an environmental and a development concern.

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