4 May 2016

Turkish Delights

It's been more than a decade since I've worked in Turkey - and this time, amid fears of government repression, Greenpeace Turkey did a bold action rigging a giant banner on one of the country's dirtiest coal-fired power plants in Soma. And guess what the banner said? Well, on a play of words, it said 'Grey' and 'Dirty', which in Turkish is 'Gri ve Pis'.

Colleagues in the office may be excused for the funny in-joke, but we weren't excused from climbing the 280-metre high chimney. The international team of climbers was professional, energetic and delightful - see here: