What happens to Europeans plastics when it is exported by countries including the UK & France to Turkey? I, @yasinnakgul & @volkikam went to Gaziantep & Adana to find out last month after Turkey last year became the main destination for the EU's waste. france24.com/en/live-news/2… According to @EU_Eurostat via @Greenpeace_Med, in 2019, the monthly average plastic imports increased to 48,500 tonnes from around 4,000 in 2016. The top 5 exporters to Turkey in 2019 were the UK, Italy, Belgium, Germany and France. bianet.org/english/enviro…

French Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian is in town (Ankara) today amid strained relations between the two countries over the YPG, Turkey's demand to open schools in France and other issues hurriyetdailynews.com/top-french-dip… France's Macron sides with Cyprus on dispute with Turkey. “The European Union will not show weakness on this matter,” he said. reut.rs/2KiZ4Gx

When 2018 arrived, I told myself I would memorise all of Turkey’s 81 provinces. That proved relatively easy so I decided I would visit each one (yes Kirikkale too IA). This goal is not so easy but so far... (beyond the obvious Ankara, Istanbul and Aksaray where I was born) I will count Eskisehir from December 2017 as it was a great city. But it turns out I spent a lot of that day trip with cats 🐈 Eskisehir’s Independence Museum was a particular delight on this trip.