GAP Holding, owned by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law, took the public tenders to demolish and rebuild the historic neighborhoods of Tarlabaşı and Fener Balat
The two holding companies own the majority of the mass media outlets, as well as partner on major energy contracts from the goverment
Cengiz, Kolin, Limak holdings together got the most of public energy tenders from the AKP government
Kalyon İnşaat's contracts and media outlets
The construction of these projects by the corporations backed by the AKP government has caused immense destruction in the Northern Forests of Istanbul
The hydropower plants - abbreviated as ‘HES’ in Turkish - allow the companies to suck the life out of even the smallest rivers
A complex web of relationships around private interests that dispossess our soil, water, air, forests, our living space
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