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The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (Turkish: Enerji ve Tabii Kaynaklar Bakanlığı) is the government ministry of Republic of Turkey responsible for natural resources and energy in Turkey. [1] The ministry is headed by Alparslan Bayraktar. [2]
Primary energy supply in Turkey (2014–2020) [27] Turkey meets a quarter of its energy demand from national resources. [28] The Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM), a think tank, says that in the 2010s, fossil fuel imports were probably the largest structural vulnerability of the country's economy: [29] they cost $41 billion in 2019 representing about a fifth of Turkey's ...
Turkey's state-owned oil and gas exploration and production company TPAO hopes to explore for oil and gas in Libyan waters: [23] a memorandum of understanding was agreed with Libya but later suspended by a Libyan court. [24] Turkey opposes some gas exploration by the Republic of Cyprus because of the Cyprus–Turkey maritime zones dispute. [25 ...
Turkey has a total of 280,000 square kilometres of agricultural area, of which 85,000 km 2 is economically irrigable and 49,000 km 2 is currently being irrigated. [6] As of 2005, an area of 28,000 km 2 is equipped with facilities of State Hydraulic Works's irrigation projects, making 10% of the total agricultural area and 57% of the irrigated ...
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All of Turkey's geothermal plants are in the west of the country. Geothermal energy is a significant part of renewable energy in Turkey: it is used for geothermal heating and generates 3% of the nation's electricity. [41] Turkey is the world's second largest user of geothermal heating, after China.
Archaeologists found Turkey relics in Arizona dating as far back as 25 A.D., and turkey-raising could be one of the oldest forms of organized meat production in the Northern Hemisphere.
According to the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, climate change is one of the world's biggest problems. [180] Turkey was the fifth-largest recipient of multilateral climate funds between 2013 and 2016, receiving $231 million through channels such as the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF). [181]